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1. Company buys you an airline ticket to and from your first assignment, plus a hotel room if you’ll be on the ground 4+ hours (I think it’s 4). You can submit a travel request form and have some input on whether you want rest before you operate, or prefer to take a later possible flight. Commutes are generally very stress-free, and most of us have decent status with airlines and hotels.

2. Trips are 16 days, by UTC time zone. Including travel to work, it will almost always be portions of 17 days local, by any American time zone. Often, travel to work occurs on day 0, even prior to midnight UTC on your first day. However, I’m almost always released well before midnight UTC on my last day. All told, I’m definitely averaging less than 16 x 24 hours per month away, including both commutes.

Hope that isn’t too confusing.