Been at PDT 3 years now, one of which I was furloughed.

Reserve the whole entire time. Commuting back and fourth for reserve, I am pretty miserable. The only good base LGA, seems like it is on its last breath. Flying we thought we picked up from Colgan we are losing there now. It will stay open a bit longer probably, maybe a year, but might get downsized.. which makes no sense considering we will still be doing a fair share of flying out of there. A hub base yet only 30 spots for FOs and CAs there. Yet SBY, ROA, MDT all have around 40ish, and their trips consist of a leg out of base on the first day, 3.5 days of LGA flying, then a leg into base on the last day.. while LGA crews keep holding their breath for the damn place to stay open.

For me the complete stagnation, along with the crap bases make this place hell. Not even going to mention the 2 years of reserve I have done thus far. And after all that time, and all the crap, I'm in a worse position now, then I was when I started off. Talk about taking steps in the wrong direction.

For interview you get pos. spaced, and they pay for hotel, at least that's how it was when I got hired in 08.

Great airplane, great crews, fun flying. But everything else pretty much sucks. The morale at the place is at critical levels. Every junior FO I know is looking at going elsewhere. If you are at a job that pays decent, and one that don't mind, I would think long and hard about it. Unless you plan to come here, bang out some hours and takeoff, then it might be ok for that. But surely not for an upgrade.

It could be a lot better here, and the QOL much higher, if some people in certain positions would make the effort. Even stuff like building lines and schedules. It's not that it can't be done, it's that who ever is doing it is either overworked and does it just so it all sticks together, or simply is too lazy to figure it out to make them more pilot/commuter friendly. Which adversly affects everybodies QOL.