Folks, looks like I’m in the same boat as many of you, staring down a summer of Reserve with a double leg commute to boot. In good days, I would commute the day prior and head home the day after every trip. Now it’s looking like I will essentially need to move to base (DCA) just to sit 18 days of long call in a hotel on year 1 pay.

Is there any effort to temporarily extend long call to 24 hours call out time? That would relieve the commuting pressure on tons and tons of pilots, with very little diminished capability for the schedulers to execute the meager schedule we have for the next 2-3 months.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.