Originally Posted by AntiPeter

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If you are willing to live in base (a junior base) with an airline you will get more time with your family. I bid the lowest work schedule with NJA (the CC52) and maxed out my vacations and PTO. With that, I still on average was away from home about 260 hours per month. Being junior at an airline I'm away from home about 190 hours per month (no vacation, no PTO).
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