The issue with CLT is it's so senior. Not only at the regional level but also at mainline AA. I would bid around 75% on the FO list there and I can hold group 2 CA elsewhere. CLT will grow somewhat which will help but keep in mind it used to go to new hires. Not even a hint of that will happen ever again I'd imagine. In other words, not only will you be waiting a while at PSA to get in as an FO, but also as a CA, then line holder, then flow as an FO and will be waiting a long time just to hold short call reserve. Keep in mind all the flows that have come from the WO's that live there, and they are all young too.

I'm not trying to burst your bubble but you might want to rethink your current spot long term if CLT is your goal...

I lived in base for roughly seven years and have commuted eight. It was really nice living in base and I will again sometime but my wife needed a career too so once I got mine she came next. While commuting sucks sometimes other times it can also be easy and nice to unwind on your own for a bit.

A 0:30-1:00 flight with half a dozen daily options on company metal (plus offline options) can almost be easier than driving to work if you come out of a small airport. I used to commute into DCA and there were times after a trip ended I would be home before the FO made it home (but he drove!). Also one nice thing about outstations is typically they have very early flights into the hubs and very late flights out of them. I could be in DCA by 630am and the last flight out was at 1030 pm. And had two different carriers in the same terminal with times offset about :20.

Contrast that now to my 3 hour cross country commute with 6-8 a day, but still always oversold or weather delayed (or canceled) and I am looking up crews to see if they will be legal the next morning and tracking airplanes to see where it's coming from, checking TAFs...yes that kind of commute sucks!