Swedish Blender

I would look at total commute time. If you go out of XNA, how much earlier would you have to leave versus driving the hour to SGF.
Also, if you chose to go out of XNA, you could ride the company out of whichever hub city you ended up in as a backup.

Not sure it's worth the hassle instead of driving though.

CactusCrew

I am by no means a professional commuter, but I can say it us generally less stressful and more reliable to ride on company to work.

When I had to commute, I rode to work on company 100% of the time.

On rare occasions, I would return on the pax airlines. Mostly on weekends when the cargo flights are scarce or non-existent.

Good Luck

UPSFO4LIFE

Ride the company to work if you can. Takes most the stress out commuting.

bigmacdaddy

Sorry for my late response to this thread! Thank you for all of your responses and PMs. Have been commuting for quite some time, and have lived in base for a small regional when I was starting out. I would much much rather drive a short distance to start my trips or sit reserve at home...much rather. That being said, I'm trying to focus on options that provide the best schedule and commute both now and long term and that is from BOI. The Majors are an easier read on this, but UPS/FedEx are harder for me to read, mostly because I don't know, but trying to find out more. Now that they are hiring, and I look almost as good as an astronaut :-) Anyhow, I agree commuting on company is much easier, and hopefully the majors continue to upguage their aircraft, although I suspect frequency will diminish as a result. I also agree a two legger commute is pain in the but squared for commuting, much rather a single leg commute. Another question that makes me feel idiotic for not knowing, but...where can I find UPS/FedEx schedule information? Like what FDXLAG indicated about the BOI-MEM? Would be very helpful. Thanks again for all the responses, crucial QOL info!

MaydayMark

FedEx ALPA has a jumpseat finder ... it's not a real good system route structure but it will answer individual route (BOI-MEM) questions.

Jumpseat Finder

Anybody have a better suggestion?


MM

DangaZone

UPS/IPA Jumpseat Finder

bigmacdaddy

Awesome! Thanks for the replies, very good info.

MD11Simnerd

Ok, you have me there.... Southern Indiana, 20 minutes to the parking lot.