Originally Posted by
FEL1011
The issues of traveling into a trip, for our friends across the pond, is due to the less than permanent nature of bases for crew. Relocation is almost never compensated for by your employer.
However, what I find I cannot explain to those outside the industry is that, for the crew of the two recent accidents in New York State, in the Colgan case, one came from Florida and one from Washington State, in neither of which I believe Colgan has ever had a base, while for the US Airways ditching, one came from California and one from Wisconsin, where the same is true - or if they do have any base in California, it seems an unusual place to crew East Coast services from.
In the case of living in Washington State and needing to commute ovenight by FedEx via Memphis for an operation based in Newark, you have to wonder what the Colgan HR recruitment people were thinking of. Which I am sure the enquiry will ask them.