It would be a small voluntary opt-in bid. If you were junior and unable to hold all JFK 4 day trips then you wouldn't bid into the virtual domicile.

Once you had enough seniority you could bid in and get both JFK and EWR 4day trips if you wanted.

It isn't a perfect system at all, but considering the vast majority of our 4-5day trip desires are from those who commute by plane then maybe it would be something to consider. It would relieve the company from base pairing distribution parameters, which should drive more productive 1-2-3 day trips as well as more commutable 4-5day trips. It would give pilots who commute by plane more options for bidding and trading trips.

We group pilots who live near BOS into one bid status, same with every other base, but for those who are not geographically tied to a single base we still force them to chose one airport when in fact there could be multiple airports they are able to commute to without much difference.