Different Base pros and cons
12-27-2018, 07:22 PM
#21
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Originally Posted by mike734
Long time Alaska pilot here. Just fly out of where you live. Commuting sucks. One other thought. Seattle will always have the most scheduling flexibility/variety.
Shame we couldn’t have taken advantage of the affordable housing prices when you did.
Two different airlines....
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12-27-2018, 07:57 PM
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“Fly out of where you live?” So unless you live in base, you should resign and get a different flying job close to home? Or did you mean uproot your life and move to the biggest base of the airline that bought your commuter friendly airline? Either way it’s a real feckless “let them eat cake comment.” Commuter friendly schedules are a huge concern of a rapidly growing proportion of pilots on our list, especially as new guys find themselves priced out of our west coast bases.
12-27-2018, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by VirginEskimo
“Fly out of where you live?” So unless you live in base, you should resign and get a different flying job close to home? Or did you mean uproot your life and move to the biggest base of the airline that bought your commuter friendly airline? Either way it’s a real feckless “let them eat cake comment.” Commuter friendly schedules are a huge concern of a rapidly growing proportion of pilots on our list, especially as new guys find themselves priced out of our west coast bases.
Every terrible thing in our contract can be boiled down to the fact that so many L-AS people drive to work. Awful reserve rules? Not that bad if you live in base. Cancellation pay that requires you to still come to base? Not that bad if you live in base. Awful commuter clause? Non issue if you live there. Uncommutable pairings and a 5:51 block hour limit that ruins productivity? Not that bad if you live in base. Crappy line bidding with very little flexibility? Doable if you live in base.
This is just a short list of things that clearly haven't been a priority in at least the last decade for the Seattle/Portland/Anchorage crowd. Why not, is anyone's guess as far as I'm concerned because improvements to all of those things would benefit everyone, not just commuters.
12-27-2018, 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by VirginEskimo
“Fly out of where you live?” So unless you live in base, you should resign and get a different flying job close to home? Or did you mean uproot your life and move to the biggest base of the airline that bought your commuter friendly airline? Either way it’s a real feckless “let them eat cake comment.” Commuter friendly schedules are a huge concern of a rapidly growing proportion of pilots on our list, especially as new guys find themselves priced out of our west coast bases.
You guys are wound up way too tight if you can take the most repeated and true statement in the airline industry, "live in base," offered to a potential new hire and twist it into something elitist and bad.
12-28-2018, 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by lowflying
You guys are wound up way too tight if you can take the most repeated and true statement in the airline industry, "live in base," offered to a potential new hire and twist it into something elitist and bad.
So other than Anchorage, which I know nothing about our bases consist of the most expensive cities to live in, pretty much on earth.
The thing is, it wasn’t that way until relatively recently. However now the housing market is beyond overheated in Seattle and everyone is telling me to simply “move in base.”
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12-28-2018, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by NewGuy01
So other than Anchorage, which I know nothing about our bases consist of the most expensive cities to live in, pretty much on earth.
The thing is, it wasn’t that way until relatively recently. However now the housing market is beyond overheated in Seattle and everyone is telling me to simply “move in base.”
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The thing is, it wasn’t that way until relatively recently. However now the housing market is beyond overheated in Seattle and everyone is telling me to simply “move in base.”
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