Originally Posted by CanWeGetTheLeft

Lynn-

After looking through your posts on other regional threads, I would think very long and hard about coming to work here.

Commuting to reserve from SEA is not sustainable. Commuting to a line in one of our junior bases (CAE/MKE) would be difficult at best due to very early shows on day 1 followed by very late finishes on day 4. ORD has become almost the same. IAD is our only base with regularly commutable lines on both ends, and it’s our most senior base by a lot (not to mention being a transcon flight for you to get there).

Consider whether you are prepared to leave Monday afternoon to fly to MKE so that you can be available for a 0400 reserve availability period on Tuesday. Then, 5 days later on Saturday, you finally get released at 2300. After a 4 hour nap, you get to make a 2 leg commute back to SEA. You get to spend Sunday night at home, but have to be back on a plane Monday so that you can be in MKE again Tuesday morning at 0400.

There are “some” options where you could potentially move reserve days around to build a schedule with a block of days off, but it’s difficult and would still require you to be gone from home for weeks at a time.

Again, think carefully about whether or not you and your family can make that schedule work, or if you are comfortable relocating to the ORD/MKE/CAE area.