Originally Posted by Bluedriver

I hear ya, and JB is closer to half and half commuters and locals. And I do believe that commutability trip-mix should be highly variable between bases, as like you said the bases have very different dynamics. I'm in favor of annual surveys, base by base, with requirements to honor each bases trip preferences.

Our company and union put out a pairings survey recently where they are least pretended to care about making better pairings, and commutability was a notable part of the survey. And if the airline wants to minimize the number of non-locals that leave the company, which they have are learning choice but to care about, they know they have to make pairings survivable for guys that don't live in base.