Originally Posted by All In

WB reserve, when you live in base can be awesome. You will hear people brag how they never fly. Commuting to reserve, however, is a whole other animal. - When you live in base, you love short calls - they are the big reason you don't fly. But when you need to fly up, pay for a hotel, fly back - sometimes every other day in a 6 day work block - it gets old, and expensive quick. In addition to the obvious stresses committing brings and being on reserve in the first place. -As a side note: while commuting to reserve previously, in about a 12 month period, out of about 30 short calls, i flew a total of 1 leg.