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There are other recent threads with base seniority discussions, I suggest you go through them.
Is DFW the only one-leg commute from your city? Maybe if you share where you live, other commuters in similar situation could give you more insight.
No matter how you look at NK, if your commute sucks, you’ll never fully enjoy the benefits of our schedules. I know that could be said about any airline, but if you’re commuting on your own metal, or at least on the regional of the legacy you work for, things will be infinitely easier.
If moving to a base it’s out of the question, then I would seriously consider living based on 60-70hrs of credit a month. That way you’d only have to work 3 4-day trips a month. We have some commuters here that claim they don’t move to base because the high cost of living related to big cities, yet they seem eager to credit 90+ hrs. Can’t have it both ways, at least not in happily manner.
Your last paragraph describes exactly what I’m considering. It would be a “happy” medium between pay and schedule for a commuter at NK I think. And Spirit actually allows that sort of thing (no min credit requirement) assuming the coverage is there. I live in Lubbock, TX, so as far as 1 leg goes, DFW is it for NK bases. There is one non stop to vegas each day, but that’s it. Everything else for every other base is two legs.