Originally Posted by
teddy3412
Commuter question. I have an interview coming up and I live in maine. I live closer to Portland and there is usually endeavor flights going to LGA (always the morning one). But usually it's 4 flights a day adjusted to 5 in the summer. I'm an hour and a half from Boston so that's also an option. Would I run into risky territory going out of Portland just because it's all on regional jets? Just trying to get an idea. I've done the commuting thing before but it was all on mainline stuff so I usually got on 95% of the time.
Are there less seats, yes. That is also because it is a smaller market obviously. Living at a smaller outstation with less frequency will mean that commuting to certain trips might require positioning day before instead of day 1. But in your situation, if getting there from PWM doesn't look like it would work out maybe you can preemptively drive to BOS. There is also usually a BGR flight to LGA in the morning, but my geographical knowledge of the area isn't strong enough to know if that's a better option than BOS. BOS has the Delta Shuttle thing going on so during the week day there are hourly flights, which park at the C gates and not the Marine Air Terminal which in turn gives you one less bus ride.
Our policy at Endeavor is to give yourself two options to get to work before your show time. If you miss the first, call in. If you miss the second more than a handful of times they might send you to a mediation board or something where they discuss why you're struggling to commute. Never heard of that happening to anyone though, including people doing much rougher commutes than PWM-LGA.