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12-03-2013 | 08:01 AM
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Nonstop flights and lots of them make commutes easy.
Connections to an airport served infrequently that commonly has weight restrictions, such as Key West, make commutes hard.
Depends on how much pain you want to put up with and where you end up based.
Something with a Miami base looks do-able. Atlanta would probably be ok. Anything else would be painful. And remember that bases change frequently, so what you have now might not be what you have in 6 months.
Connections to an airport served infrequently that commonly has weight restrictions, such as Key West, make commutes hard.
Depends on how much pain you want to put up with and where you end up based.
Something with a Miami base looks do-able. Atlanta would probably be ok. Anything else would be painful. And remember that bases change frequently, so what you have now might not be what you have in 6 months.
12-03-2013 | 08:02 AM
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Commutes pretty much suck no matter where you live but some are worse than others. Eagle has a MIA base but I'd never recommend anyone apply there. Seaborne is seeing some growth but I don't know what their bases are. I'm not too sure who has bases in the south east, I'm a west coast guy so I only looked at west coast bases.
12-03-2013 | 06:01 PM
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Lived on a sailboat in Key West for two years. (2006-2008) Had non-rev privileges but found few empty seats available. There were some airline pilots living on boats in the Keys and they found non-rev / jump seat difficult.
Most just drove to Miami.
Most just drove to Miami.
12-03-2013 | 06:44 PM
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Commutes pretty much suck no matter where you live but some are worse than others. Eagle has a MIA base but I'd never recommend anyone apply there. Seaborne is seeing some growth but I don't know what their bases are. I'm not too sure who has bases in the south east, I'm a west coast guy so I only looked at west coast bases.
12-03-2013 | 07:39 PM
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12-04-2013 | 04:42 AM
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No matter how you look at it, if you have to do a 2 leg commute to get to work it's very tough and tiring and you will probably get burnt out. If you can fly for someone with a base in ATL or better yet MIA, life would be much easier if you plan to stay in Key West.
P.S. Don't listen to anything Bzzt might have to say about Eagle, if that is somewhere you're considering applying to.
12-04-2013 | 04:52 AM
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Commutes pretty much suck no matter where you live but some are worse than others. Eagle has a MIA base but I'd never recommend anyone apply there. Seaborne is seeing some growth but I don't know what their bases are. I'm not too sure who has bases in the south east, I'm a west coast guy so I only looked at west coast bases.
12-04-2013 | 06:09 AM
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You can upgrade but will make less than 50k as a captain. Based in St Croix or San Juan, commuting from key west have to be double leg and MIA to SJU are always full!
Upgrade is not everything in life.
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