Originally Posted by
Stratoliner
Look, it's fine that you would rather inconvenience yourself for the luxury of living one or more legs and a sizeable fraction of a day away from work. I'm not saying you aren't entitled to make that life choice, you are. Why do you want positive space? Because unlike a person who drives or takes a train to the airport, every single commute to work is a stressful situation, you might not make it to work, and it's your fault because you chose to live so far away from work with a transportation method that isn't guaranteed beyond 'acts of God'. You guys don't want to admit that this is an alien life choice to how most people go about their lives and career, and you want to make zero sacrifices to earn an income which puts you in the top 5-10% of all Americans.
You could move to base. Virtually nobody can't move to base. You just don't want to. That's fine, you're entitled to do so, I'm not telling you not to. But be a grown up and don't expect the company to expend millions in revenue for what is a choice that you aren't forced to make.
Living in base is a choice. If it wasn't then all the major air lines would mandate that as a condition of hire you were required to move to one of their bases. They don't do that do they. For a reason.
You obviously haven't been at a base that was shutdown.
My contract mantra is and always has been - what's best for the pilot group as a whole. I think PSC is a bridge too far. Most agree with that who've posted here, but we do need to vastly improve our commuter language and perhaps get some lift from the company on this in some form (reduced FCFL, priority for commuting to work on the non-rev list etc).
Originally Posted by
PilotJ3
Either you’re a company man…
or we found the person that’s living in base and it’s miserable with the decision.
PTC is the bomb dontcha know......