No, it means that there has to be 2 flights to get you to work at least 30 mins prior to show that have seats available 24 hours in advance of the commutes go time. The jumpseat counts as a seat. Now, this can be a bit of gray area. If you are commuting in the CAL system and look at employee res and see a guy listed for BOTH the JS as well as a seat in the back, and can more than likely hold the back seat, does that mean the JS is booked? Like I said, gray area.

Some guys will look at the employee res site the night before they commute, the seats available, and PRINT out the page showing that there were seats open. That way, if there was a cancellation or something and the seats evaporated, he has proof they were open inside the 24 hour window. The biggest thing about the commuter clause is this, READ it, UNDERSTAND it, and make sure your BASES ARE COVERED in the event you have to use it.

If you are commuting on DAL, you can go to DAL's website and see open seats, or use the FTWeb when you get hired to look at loads. For branded, you can probably do the same. Don't know, I don't fly on that side. For a generic page that show flights between city pairs, use passrider.com. Bear in mind, SouthWest does not show up on there.

And to answer you original question, yes. There are a lot of guys that commute from WA. I heard that SEA-IAH could be tough, as well as long. I heard that SEA-LAX is not too bad.

Crashpads in LAX, can be expensive as well as hard to find, relatively speaking.