Originally Posted by Cujo665

The best commuter policies are the ones that don’t require commuting. The DH is company provided and part of your duty day.
Kalitta, Omni & ATI. Other ACMI do home basing as well, but those three are closest to mainline pay and decent work rules. Never a crashpad, always get a hotel. Keep all airline miles and most hotel points.
That said, the single long trip each month isn’t for everybody. There are schedules with it broken up, but it’s still more than 4 days in most cases. I have a 4 day this month, then the other 12 all at once for example. In all 16 days I’ll do 6 flights. The rest is long/short call in cities most folks run to for vacations. If you can deal with longer trips, you also get your time off in much larger chunks too... which makes taking multiple family vacations each year a breeze.
It’s not for everybody, but for those who won’t/can’t move and hate commuting it can be a great deal.
Just some extra info to process.

One thing is for sure, it’s a great time to be a pilot. Oh, and no commuting excuse required, you have a real seat, and if the flight cancels they just rebook you. Zero stress ever.