I have experience with 0:45 up to 6 hour air commutes, and driving from 2 up to five hours.

A lot depends on the nature of the alternative air commute, once the drive exceeds three hours. Also the nature of the drive matters, three hours on an open highway on cruise control is quite a different animal than three hours to go cover 50 miles in rush hour traffic.

I'd say that three hours drive would be my max and even that would be stretching it a bit. You're going to have to really push the fatigue boundaries, especially dribing home after a late finish, or get a hotel. If you're getting a hotel anyway, then the air commute looks more palatable.

I have a spectrum of music for my drive, on one end is Jazz. The other end is German heavy metal, that's for driving home well after midnight after a long duty day.

Also that's a lot of gas. EV's don't have the range to do 2-4 hours, sit in the lot for 4-6 days, and then get you home at 0230 without charging. At this point you can't yet rely on charger availability in employee parking. Maybe a hybrid to cut gas costs?


Separate note... regarding the Max. If MCAS had reared it's ugly head in 2029 instead of 2019, there would have been several airlines in very deep financial doo-doo. Like liquidation, unless .gov threw them a very large life-ring. Even this latest issue occured with relatively few max in service, and during a normal seasonal low combined with economy-induced low bookings... couldn't have happened at a better time, probably would have been quite ugly financially if it happened in Jun vice Jan.

So yeah I lose some sleep over that. Hopefully BCA can be fixed somehow.