Originally Posted by
HighFlight
If you are based in NY, then you get per diem while TDY, even if you live in DTW. 24 hours per day. Free hotels when you aren't flying out of base, though if you live there, not much need. Unless you wanted someone to be able to stay there with you, then you can claim the room I guess.
7.a. A Pilot filling a temporary Vacancy away from his Domicile will be paid per diem for the period starting at 0001 on the first day of the Month through 2359 on the last day of the Month, except for periods of vacation or other leaves of absence.
Subparagraphs G.7.a. through c., above, shall not apply to a Pilot who volunteers for a temporary Vacancy whose actual residence is within fifty (50) miles of the airport where the temporary Vacancy exists.