Yes, you can request any base. However, if you request a CKA in a base outside of the one you're based in or requested....then it's on you to get to/from UOE and cover any hotels on the front/back of the trip if needed. If they send you to another base, then it's on them. I could have done it this week with a MDW CKA friend, but I'm not in the business of doing their job for them or subsidizing bad policy. You want me there, you get me there and cover my hotels. Just because I request it is irrelevant...that's a cheap way of doing business. I did do a deep dive of all the non-blocked CKA in my base and some are doing IOE on guys needing 40-50 hrs to finish up. Seems new hires who finished up to a week after I finished have trips and we still don't....not sure if that's a Line Check schedule issue or they're just that stupid that they're willing to pay a CA 3x what a new hire makes to sit around at home.