Originally Posted by
aussieflyboy
Are you on drugs? Do away with commuting?? You're talking about probably north of 20000 pilots in the US uprooting their families...
As was mentioned earlier, a lot of guys have >2 hour drives to their base. I personally am a lot less fatigued after a 2 hour fly-in commute than I am after getting up at 4am for a 2 hour drive to the airport. Kinda tough to catch an hour of shut-eye in the middle lane of the Interstate.
Where would you draw the line? What would classify as "commuting"?
Yes, I just took a tylenol PM. And perhaps people who commute now can be grandfathered in, but it simply has to go. I suppose if you fly a wide body and commute twice a month of if the company positive spaces you that's one thing, but commuting needs to be counted as duty time.
Flying to work is the type of commuting we are talking about.