Originally Posted by Captain Slow

MCI FO with just over a year on property.... I'm a line holder and average 15 days off a month with around 87hr credit. I bid for trips three days or less, so normally I have a 3on/3off or 3/4 schedule throughout the month. If I bid weekends off I'll get a three day backed up to a two day (mon-fri) normally but there are five day trips available to bid. I can reliably hold weekends off if I need to. The MCI trips are normally only commutable on one end, which seems to be the norm at our other bases as well (blah blah outstations, etc).

When I was reserve in DCA I was commuting, I was able to set my schedule up so that I could do blocks of four to six days at a time pretty easily to minimize the number of times I had to commute.