Of which you may still in effect have to commute unless you live at one of their bases.

I have dozens of friends that I am in touch with who work at other airlines, I'd say more than half are commuting.

Commuting IS, and ALWAYS has been part of the perks of being an airline pilot. A guy can live in Rifle Colorado, Dothan Alabama, or Hilo and work for any airline... the only cost is days off burned in the commute, which clearly isn't a problem for many. In my case, I live in a major west coast city served by HAL, so my commute is frankly the easiest I've had since I've started flying for the airlines in 1995.

Even on Interisland, I was able to make it work, just not as well as on WW.. But there are several II captains who are junior and commuters and they love their job and schedule from talking to them.

For the life of me, I don't understand why "some" make such a huge deal out of commuting at Hawaiian... especially when so many are doing it day in and day out without even the basic benefit of a commuter policy which is now industry standard at all other airlines.

If you want to work for a great airline, fly nice relatively new, safe and well maintained aircraft, all over the Pacific, get paid industry standard wages,.. in my eyes there is no better job.

To tell people that you have to move here to work here smacks of a "it's our thing" or "foreigners need no apply" mentality, which makes no sense in today's airline industry, does a disservice to our airline's ability to recruit the best pilots for our rapid growth and compete with the likes of DAL, UAL, AA, and Alaska for those pilots.