Originally Posted by Turbosina

The IAH SFO commute is tough because of all the IAH residents doing SFO WB flying. I did it for 5 months and I'm so happy I don't have to do it anymore. The other thing you should know is that approximately 60-65 pct of SFO73 trips begin with a redeye -- so they're commutable on the front end but only rarely are commutable on the back end.

Open time right now is scarce because it's February/ March. There's definitely more open time in the summer. As for picking up out of base, I've tried to do that in IAH (I'm SFO based) but all the good flying seems to be gone long before the OOB pickup window opens...