Originally Posted by Globemaster2827

At Atlas if you commute they buy you a ticket to and from work on your day off at a time they have control over. You pay taxes on the ticket.

So if you're an FO in ANC and live in Richmond VA, they buy you a ticket on "Day 0" of your trip that would go something like RIC-CLT-SEA-ANC that would get you in at least 10 hours prior to your trip starting. On "Day 18" they'd buy you a ticket back to RIC. "Day 0" and "Day 18" are unpaid.