Where the built-out carriers actually base their pilots, and where the rest of the world flies from. Filter by the kind of flying first — mainline, low-cost, cargo, regional, international, fractional — then by the airline itself. Drag to turn the earth, scroll or pinch to zoom, hover a city to see who shares it, and open any base straight in the domicile explorer. The routes are drawn as true great circles on a sphere, which is the only way to draw them honestly — a flat sheet turns every trans-Pacific departure into an eastbound one.
A filled dot is a crew base this site has actually researched: nine scored factors, commutability, seniority, the drive to the field. An accent dot is an international hub researched to 1 September 2026 that still cannot be scored: none of those carriers publishes a bid list to rank against, and what each one publishes about pay varies from a full contract table to nothing at all. A hollow dot is a real hub with no brief behind it yet — the Asian majors, United’s Guam domicile. Three treatments, so a reference point can never be mistaken for a scored base.
Some carriers have no domicile to bid. You live where you like inside their cost index and they buy the ticket that gets you to the aeroplane.
Five of the six Gulf and European carriers assign to a single national hub. Lufthansa splits Frankfurt and Munich, but says its own bid and base rules are not publicly summarized. Either way there is no bid list to score. The fractional operators are home-based by design — Flexjet publishes more than 115 domiciles and NetJets pays to commute you in — so a pin would misrepresent the deal. The U.S. regionals fly a partner network from crew bases their own sources never enumerate, so there is no base list to score there either. What the six overseas carriers get instead is the set of questions that actually decides a move abroad — whether an FAA licence transfers, whether you may legally work there, and whether the base can be commuted to at all. Cost of living is deliberately not among them: an overseas package is built from housing, schooling and allowances that only the written offer settles. {{ payClaim }} Rather than leave anything blank, every brief below ends in the open items you would have to settle for yourself.
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The same bases at the scale you actually bid them, with Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico framed alongside.
Base lists come from each carrier's researched data file, and the code on a pin is the field that carrier reports to, not always the metro's biggest airport. Anchorage, Honolulu and San Juan sit outside the projection and are framed separately. Domiciles open and close; verify against the current bid package before you plan around any of it.