I am 30 minutes door to door to PHL and about 80 from EWR. LGA or JFK would be 2 hours in good traffic (if I left home the second I was called up). I don’t plan on moving so I’m trying to determine the best route to go in applying to regionals and - if given the choice of offers - which would potentially minimize commuting during the time I’m on reserve. It would be icing in the cake if I got PHL or EWR as a line holder. But I’m more willing to commute when I’m no longer on reserve.

When someone upthread mentioned that juniors at piedmont mostly go to PHL as of now, but then could be assigned MDT…that would be an example if something that’s not commutable in 2 hours from where I live if I was assigned reserve there, and I can’t imagine crashing somewhere closer to MDT only to not be called for duty.