What's your beef with commuters?

As having been on both sides of the commuter fence, I think they help to balance the in-base crowd. They wind up with less Green Slips and choose a line over reserve. In base guys can vacuum up the GS's and sit reserve from home. Always seemed like a win-win to me.

And regardless of your feelings towards them, commuting is a right that's been a benefit of working for the airlines for decades. If they ever required everyone to live in base, we'd lose a lot of talent and would need some HUGE gains in the contract to compensate for QOL hit to many. I doubt they'd even be able to fully staff NYC. Anything that makes commuting easier is a welcome addition in my opinion, and I'm forever (hopefully) committed to living in base from now on.