Originally Posted by iaveight

If you commute it’s terrible until a year in than it just sucks . If able to hold a line, commute in on day one and commute home on day four unless you are junior manned which is happening a lot. For myself it means waking up on day one at 4 am, catching the early flight to philly getting a minute suite for an hours rest unless the crew room does it for you. Start work at 4 in the afternoon fly three segments finish at 1030 pm . Second day two segments finishing late again with min rest to swap to earlies, another min rest day to hopefully finish by 1 pm commute home jump seat because of basic economy fares all the flights are now full, to be at my house by 5 pm . 2 days off with scheduling calling on the last day off upto 4 times trying to make you answer so they can start you early . This means commuting in on a day off . Expect to spend 5 thousand that first year on hotels, food,unless you eat like crap and don’t mind being a fat regional pilot . While on build up lines expect to commute in the night before so on your day off and finish late day four . You guessed it one full day at home to start again. If you live in PHL things are better with 11 days off . Expect the lines to be played with , expect to see some lines with 13 days off but running more days than other lines , so effectively still getting 11 days off .