I've held 3 separate bases with this company, and each I could have held year-round. Each change was voluntary. I was first based in SJU, then bid out to a north country outstation to get back to the mainland. After 5 months of working too hard, I bid out to a nice easy line elsewhere. Now I work half the month and am home for lunch everyday. I'm only about a quarter of the way up the seniority list, so I'm not super senior. I just bid to bases that aren't very popular. If you want to hold BOS or HYA specifically, then yeah, you're going to get bumped around.

I'll admit that what we have isn't optimal, but it's certainly more optimal than a 99-seat jet for $23/hour. Sure, those same guys sometimes turn their noses up at you for flying a 402, but I've got about 25,000 more reasons why I don't care.