Originally Posted by
bradthepilot
The downsides to MSP are that you have to actively try to fly outside the local system - it won't just "happen"; you have to actively bid to do it (you can always pick up out of base, but that commute is then on you) along with the CA imbalance.
Does this mean that if I want to fly, I should bid for flying outside the base correct? I heard many MSP pilots come to DFW and ATL to fly. But these flights they wanted to fly outside of base, not being forced to commute and fly these?