I commuted from CMH to EWR for 6 years, with a short stint to Houston thrown in there for good measure.

It's not the hardest place to commute from if you get based anywhere near there, as there is usually a direct flight to our hubs.

I tried Cleveland for a year but that didn't work out as I always got short called to a 5am trip and ended up driving up there at 3am. I bid out of CLE for that reason.

This was a couple contracts ago and things may have changed in reserve QOL but I didn't find the commute too terribly bad to EWR on the 756. The more senior you are the less time you spend in crashpads. It's a law of commuting physics.

But a commute sucks no matter how "easy it is."

I now live in base.