Originally Posted by
LAXtoDEN
Lmao yea I guess technically he/she is “driving”. I’d say driving 2 hours back and forth after finishing up at midnight and busting his/her ass flying the typical
Southwest 5 legs a day schedule will get really old really fast. Oh, and they get the privilege of doing that on a 73. Ooooffffff!!
In the nearly 3 decades I've been with SW, I did an airplane commute for 6 years, a 3 hour drive for 18 and a 45 minute drive for the rest. All the drives have been to the second most senior base for my longevity.
No doubt that the 45 minute drive is the best, by orders of magnitude, but the same can be said when comparing the 3 hour drive vs. airplane.
The 3 hour drive sucked, especially the last few years, but it still wasn't worth commuting on an airplane, even for 15-20% better seniority in other domiciles.
Nowadays, I look back and can't believe that I did that drive for as long as I did before moving to a domicile, which I should've done at least a decade sooner. But I still don't regret not airplane commuting.
And I cannot recall the last time I did 5 legs at SW. I am talking at the latest, mid 2000's, maybe. It's rare to do 4 these days.
Sadly, the duty days are longer now trying to get 2-3 legs done, vs the old days when we'd get 6 legs done in 8 or 9 hours.
YMMV.
For the OP:
Given the parameters you've given, choose the one that you can DRIVE to. Long term airplane commutes take years off your life.