Just because people are opting to commute to other bases doesn’t make it easy. The alternative is to commute to sit reserve. The option to commute to actually go fly vs commute and sit reserve and not fly isn’t that hard to pick which is the lesser. But that doesn’t make commuting any less of a pain. The company can’t supply enough flying for its pilots and when more than half the bases pilots sit reserve without getting a call yeah I’d rather try and go somewhere else to pick up a trip. If I was already going to commute to go sit why not go fly. It’s a huge qol hit to commute regardless if you’re commuting to base or out of base to get a trip. Their thinking is everyone lives in base and must be choosing to commute out of base to pick up trips. I’d probably say a majority of the pilot group lives outside their base.