Originally Posted by eastwest

AS Employees in Prudhoe Bay generally work a 14 days on/14 days off schedule. They live in company housing and eat at a mess hall run by an oil company. (AS pays a set monthly rate for the service.) CSA/Ramp personnel who are AS employees can bid up there when positions open if their seniority allows. They are typically highly valued positions that go senior in the bidding process. Most people who are able to bid up to Prudhoe stay there for many years. They are allowed to register a domicile in any one city that AS/QX serves and they are guaranteed a seat to fly to and from Prudhoe Bay to and from work.

I don't have the seniority to "hold" Prudhoe, but I have worked up there on "field trips" to fill in when others were on vacation. It's brutally cold, but it has some positives. The best is the 14 on/14 off schedule. When you get free travel in your off time, you can do some serious sightseeing every two weeks. Additionally, you don't have much in the way of expenses for the two weeks you are at work, so you can certainly save some money that way.