Yeah, once in an entire career. Second time is a carpet dance and third time is/can be dicipline. In a career. That makes it pretty much useless (other than your once in a lifetime freebie). A policy like that, if it is enforced in such a horrible labor relations kind of way, will result in worse labor relations not better as well as causing increased sick calls and/or pilots commuting so conservatively as to be less rested than they otherwise would have been had they not been in perpetual fear of a hostile management who views commuting as some off the wall extreme and essentric luxury bordering on wanton recklessness. Commuting is part of the industry and your workers are the foundation of your operation and customer service.

Again, the policy is good but the preface is trash. That negative context has not only been officially backed up at least once already, the absolutely insane stipulation of "pilots are responsibile for avoiding chronic cancel prone flights that our company can't figure out how to operate reliably" was incompetent frosting on a hostile cupcake.

One "freebie" in a career, if that is really how this will be interpreted/enforced, makes this otherwise good policy pretty much worthless. After your one freebie you are exposing yourself even listing more than 20 minutes before a flight because if you obey the rules after your one career freebie you can be nailed for it. And for what, one penalty free positive space flight in an entire career? It would be better to get rid of that in exchange for removing the strongly implied threat of jeopardy and an admission that commuting is here, its real and its a fact of life in this industry. How can anyone not get that?