To be honest, it was awful for me. Way too many other airlines based there which makes the commute rough. Worst was AA. Don’t even bother going to AA was my MO. So many former AWA guys doing the commute that reserve the jumpseat. While often times senior enough to get a seat as a non rev, they still take the jumpseat leaving you behind. DL was mostly if not all RJ’s just like us and there was always 1-3 Delta pilots shooting for jumpseat. Next is Southwest which is Thunder Dome. No real concerns for any SWA Pilots on the jumpseat so everyone seems to head to SWA when their respective airline is full. The Virgin now Alaska guys seemed to be the main offenders for camping out at the gate podium around 1.5 hours or so before departure. So even though it’s 1 hour prior for check in, if you weren’t at the gate 1.5 prior then you’d likely have 2-3 other pilots standing around waiting. This got very old constantly seeing this same scenario play out week after week.

It’s been maybe 2 years since I was based there so this information might still be valid or it might be obsolete. SFO has some nasty GDP’s from time to time but it has only burned me 1-3 times in the last 2 years. Besides that I’ve been in the physical jumpseat maybe 3 times since I lateraled up. Hope this helps.