Originally Posted by
Honudiver
Thank you. Now the second big question on commuting and reserve time. Where do you stay while on reserve and commuting? As I understand, it is usually five days on and three days off while pulling reserve. Does the five days on come out of my pocket for hotel stays?
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Once you get your relocation days, any hotels "in base" will be out of pocket, but with the $250 monthly commuter hotel reimbursement available. You can blow through that pretty quickly on reserve. That's one reason new-hire commuters might pick the base they can get a line at the fastest instead of the one they really want because they can 1-leg.
If you play your cards right you could change domicile every month until you hold a line and get company paid hotels until you "relocate" each month. I'm pretty sure that's not worth the hassle.
Of course, any trip with an overnight out of base will have a company-provided hotel, so figuring out where reserves get used most heavily (guessing DCA and CLT) might be beneficial.