Then add in the "whatever airport you flew into, they want the furthest one"

Christmas week 2018. Bad weather in NYC. I'm assigned 1400-0100 SC. I'm sitting in my crash pad that's a 15 minute walk to jfk airtrain.

Snowing.

Call to EWR. I'm in a cab less than 15 minutes after call. (Throw on uniform, finish eating my pizza, call uber)

1 hour later. Still on belt parkway. Crew Skeds calls "you must be there in the next 30 minutes or else"

"or else what?"

"you're on probation"

"no I'm not"

(I was just under a year on property but flew over 400 block)

30 minutes later. Cs supervisor calls.
"where are you "
"verazanno narrows bridge. Traffic ain't moving fast"
"it's only 20 miles"
"Its rush hour and snowing. I could have walked to JFK in 15 minutes, but EWR is gonna,be at least another hour"
"how is this taking so long, you are required to be "promptly available ""
"To the nearest of the 3 airports. I could have walked all the way to the terminal if I need to"
"you need to be promptly available to all 3"
"put supervisor on"
"I am a supervisor"
"get your boss and the duty pilot on"

Get DP. Explain situation. Tell him I was call to in Uber less than 15 minutes from my crash pad in Ozone Park"

"that's more than reasonable. Add a note to CXs rotation that I'm authorizing full reimbursement for cab fare"

call ends. Dp calls
"sorry man, they do not understand that rush hour in NYC is like Atlanta when it snows. They're gonna GS the other 2 pilots as the 2 you are supposed to join will time out in 30 minutes and we both know that's not happening"