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bike21
9-5 Ruins Lives
Entirely subjective I believe. Also depends on which aircraft and availability of flying. The best base is the one you live in for the most part.
ComplexHiAv8r
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And if you have to commute, commuting on your own metal helps.JustinS said:
Lee D
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I'd take limited flying variety and living in base any day.
That being said many of the bigger bases have decent variety. For example I've been both Denver and LAX based. Both went to a ton of airports across the country.
Lee D
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Did that one for a year, blah! On the back end of my trips I spent more nights in the crew lounge than my entire career combined. Ending after 8 pm in LAX made getting home tricky.
I try to forget the nights I spent in the Hacienda too, not to mention the 5.0 earthquake that woke me one morning.
bike21
9-5 Ruins Lives
Indeed. Besides driving to work nowadays I really do like the DEN pairings for the most part. We cover some serious ground with good variety. Helps fight complacency
crfguy51
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Holy d-bag.
motormadness24
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So you're saying people should be heavily weighing the fact you get some additional crappy travel benefits you will hardly even use when picking an air frame? That should be just about the last thing a noob should be considering.
Look, I get it, the Delta benefits for us RJ guys are the best between UA and AA. I've been around them all. It's nice to not have to fork over extra money to fly in J on a long trans-oceanic flight, so that is a plus. I travel too, but I'd be picking on bases and QOL over travel benefits that can change on a whim. Of course that's how everything works in this crazy industry.
Zondaracer
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$7500 bonus, company with a solid track record, a dropping upgrade times, E175s on order, relatively good employee morale, depending on the base you can get a line right away, and maybe they have a base that is convenient for you.
Having said that, it would be a tough move to give up seniority at any company for the reasons stated above unless you were at a sinkin ship.
ComplexHiAv8r
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Or only a few years in like my roomate. Bonus got him close first year, the raise pushed it over.Zondaracer said:
Lee D
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While they aren't as great for us as they are for a mainline Delta employee they are not as shabby as you might think, especially if you live near a Delta hub. On our own metal we go as an S3 and take priority over other carriers (I believe it works the same for any other regional partner) and can use the S2 6 times a year. Living in the SLC area I have used them extensively over the past decade. Lots of SkyW peeps travel around the world on their Delta bennies.
bike21
9-5 Ruins Lives
It's a factor, no one said to weigh it heavily over anything else. Clearly you don't travel enough to see it as a larger benefit, so that's cool. But for fun let's compare two trips both in biz from LAX-SYD round trip.
DL - just taxes, probably around $250 for two people.
UA - just under $1,000 for the same class (first is even more)
If you got into this business to travel as I did and actually go places instead of complaining and making excuses why the benefits suck then it is a factor. Always love hearing guys moan about the travel bennies then I share all the places I've been as a loooong time reserve with limited flexibility in time off. Then they get quiet about it and start to think perhaps they can travel too.
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
Capt. Brant Harrison said:
Meanwhile, in San Francisco —
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
I haven't looked at the PHX schedules in a while, but I would assume that they suffer from the Brasilia Problem, in that:
(1) they go not a lot of places,
(2) they are predominately short legs and
(3) first flight out/last flight in to a lot of places, because feeder.