The population of Philly is growing albeit fairly slowly. Roughly 1%-2% per year. At least it's not in decline. I think from a seniority standpoint it's an awesome move - it's junior and has a ton of commuters, so there is lots of opportunity for OG/premium when weather hits. It also gets quite a bit of storms in both the summer and winter months, and we tend to be cancel happy when that happens.

I actually considered it too, it has some pretty areas outside the city that can be rural. The worst part is the property taxes so just buy a smaller home, and there are areas that aren't as bad. The state income tax isn't bad at around 3%.

 

Shoulda stayed at Envoy brah.

 

Per Parker at a Crew News PHX is a tier 2 hub. He broke all hubs down by 1-3. LAX is maxed out, and can’t serve all the cities AA wants to serve with frequency. PHX handles much of the west coast/mountain region flying. It is very important to the company and provides relief for LAX AND DFW. It’s the 6th or 7th largest city, depending on whatever matrix, in the USA, a vacation destination, and has many companies inside its boarders.

SWA would laugh and take all the domestic and some international flying if AA left, and AA would never get any of it back. I believe PHX will stay for a lot longer than people think. Not all the traffic to the mountains and west can flow through DFW and LAX. Let’s not even get started on how much PHX cleans up the East Coast and Central weather issues. A lot the passengers were never suppose to go through PHX, but have to when DFW goes to hell.

 

I was pretty dang close to moving there this year. Staying put because we decided we don’t want to uproot the kids again, so we’ll wait it out. I think it’s a great base from which to leverage your seniority. You can bid, PHL, LGA, & DCA. PHL will be getting 787’s most likely. We were looking in Bucks County and north of Lancaster in a town called Lititz. You can buy a lot more house towards Lancaster. State tax is a Flat rate (my preferred tax style) just above 3%. Property taxes are way higher than in Colorado, but probably a bit lower than the metroplex. Each county has its own income tax of between .5% and 1% (mostly 1%). One could live a great life out there on our salaries.

 

Truth...

Have experienced this frequently. PHX has saved from DFW Wx meltdowns on more than several occasions while riding on AA equipment out of California.