Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Many folks who live in SAN would have no desire whatsoever to live in the bay area, that's apples to oranges in many ways.
NASNI is only part of it. The entire 3rd marine air wing is in San Diego.
There are also a lot of senior staff billets at various HQ's, many of which are filled with aviators who are short final to retirement.
I gave airline career advice to many such folks over years in the reserves, I do have some SA.
I mean, you also have NAS Lemoore (I was stationed there), and we have exactly zero pilots in SFO from there. Could there be demand for SAN? Sure, but this idea that SFO is completely unbelievable when Skywest has a large base there. You might very well be right, but again, you are talking about new hires, which means that the company actually has to interview and hire people who live there. We all know how that goes.