Thanks for all the responses everyone.

From what I gather everyone can agree that any commute by airplane is going to make life tough. You’ll spend more time away from home, more money on gas/crash pads and lose the flexibility to accept short notice flights on days off for bonus pay. That being said, if you have the personality to make good use of the travel time and can use that to catch up on phone calls, bills, reading, etc the commute is tolerable.

It def gives me something to think about.

If I were to commute to CLT I’d be flying on PSA a majority of the time. That’s why I mentioned PSA. If the goal was to get based in CLT would it make more sense to try to get on with Piedmont? If they only have bases in CLT and PHL I would think I would have a better chance of ending up in CLT. I guess the trade off would be more time spent driving because PSA pilots would get the jumpseat over me