Commuting to/from Florida...well...it sucks. A lot. You and every other pilot, pilot's wife, pilots brother, pilot's next door neighbor that swung a buddy pass, pilots estranged daughter, pilots flight attendant girlfriend, etc. will be fighting for those seats. At least you can hit on the daughter and try and swing a letter of rec when the DNA test proves it's yours. You'll sign up for the jump seat three hours in advance and try and dissuade anyone with an ID badge from going near your gate. You'll start figuring out the term "Outstation Commuting" very quickly. After you spend your day off in ATL trying to get on DAL you'll understand. The trick is to figure out what cities you can get to MCO from that no one ever uses. Example - Tri Cities on Delta, BHM/BNA on Southwest, etc. etc. ATL and any other major hub should be avoided like it's the plague because the flights are oversold by 562 seats. The ones that actually do have seats available will have a Non-rev list longer than people signing up for free lap dances to the live version of "Free Bird", and they all have Priority Dates from the 1920's which vastly outweigh your 2007 date of hire. The nice thing is you get to compare the service between DAL, US Air, Southwest, Airtran, Air Jamacia, Norwegian Air, Florida Coastal, and Frontier because you'll use all of them on one commute. Hell, you might find yourself trying to swing a ride from a Commercial Pilot Applicant at some FBO just for the hell of it. God only knows...End Rant.

As far as doing it on Colgan...I saw my buddy that did it about 6 times in 8 months when he was commuting to SYR. He eventually quit (although I think it was for reasons beyond just the commute).