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tacocat
As a captain or an FO?
If you’re a prospective captain, you’ll need 4 years to hold BOS, so don’t buy what they’re selling.
As an FO, it’s not a great base. If you’re able to live at home on the minimum wage Cape pays, that helps, but otherwise the lines are some of the lowest paying, and least flight time in the northeast. Now that OGS is gone, you don’t have the longer outstation days, which is nice, but there’s not a lot of overtime (or any in some cases) built in.
While generally BOS runs senior, this isn’t accurate. This summer someone is holding Boston as a captain with around a year of seniority. Second there is no typical BOS line, it tends to be filler for gaps in what the outstation captains can do schedule wise mixed with a bunch of cape and islands runs.
The best bases both for FOs and Captains tends to be EAS route outstations. Build the most time with the most humane schedules. The flip side is living in those places and the sometimes challenge of finding reasonable housing.
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