Originally Posted by
newpilot
Has anyone done this? how extressing could this be?
thanks.
Extressing? I don't know.
Stressful, maybe.
Tiring, yes.
If your schedule allows it, it might be doable. But the thing is that unless loads are looking good the day you want to commute, you are going to want to give yourself extra time and possibly a day. On a 4 on 3 off schedule, that extra day might eat up a bunch of your time off.
Also, the schedule might not be realistically commutable, you might have to be on too early to fly that day and get off too late to make it out on the last flight, which would leave you flying on your days off, which will become unfun very fast.
I've done coast to coast once or twice to visit the parents and it can become a very long day pretty quickly if you have to connect or your ideal flight (read: nonstop) is full. This is especially true going eastbound. There is no better way to eat up daylight and time than flying eastbound. Its surprising how quickly your options can dry up when the morning flights are full and you don't get on.
Example, SEA-MSP-ICT. Departed at 730AM PST arrived at 430pm CST. Even with the time change, its still a long day and you are dead tired when you get home.
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