Living in Pennsylvania?
06-25-2019, 11:19 PM
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Allentown area is great in terms of work. It would extremely iffy to make it within the 2 hour short call window (1:20 to the airport and 30 min to gate, gives you 10 minutes of play time for putting on uniform, dragging bags to car, and traffic).
There's three busses daily on 'United' with a flight number that could be argued to use your commuter clause if the weather is absolutely ****. Not that anything would be flying out of EWR and the company would rather have you sit at home, but it's a backup option for worst case scenarios.
There's three busses daily on 'United' with a flight number that could be argued to use your commuter clause if the weather is absolutely ****. Not that anything would be flying out of EWR and the company would rather have you sit at home, but it's a backup option for worst case scenarios.
06-26-2019, 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted by v1valarob
Well this is ironic, I know as of yesterday a 11/17/17 hire received word that they are going to IAD in August.
06-26-2019, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by njd1
NJ is on a par with CA for high cost of living including taxes, so stay the hell away from NJ if you can avoid it. Our population is decreasing for a reason. People are leaving in droves. PA is notably cheaper in all respects, though a lot of the new apartments and townhomes being built in the Easton area (which is particularly convenient to Route 78, which leads directly to EWR) are quite expensive, for PA anyway.
Keep in mind that eastern PA can be 1.5+ hour drive to EWR. It sometimes takes me up to 30 minutes to get from the employee lot to the gates, depending mostly on the bus schedule. You may not be able to reliably drive to EWR in 2 hours to meet the reserve call out window. Therefore, at least while on reserve, you may need the occasional hotel or crash pad. That said, C5 loves its airport reserves, so if you need a semi-fixed / predictable schedule, you can request airport reserve and leave sufficiently early to show up at the airport as you would for a 9-5 desk job.
Keep in mind that eastern PA can be 1.5+ hour drive to EWR. It sometimes takes me up to 30 minutes to get from the employee lot to the gates, depending mostly on the bus schedule. You may not be able to reliably drive to EWR in 2 hours to meet the reserve call out window. Therefore, at least while on reserve, you may need the occasional hotel or crash pad. That said, C5 loves its airport reserves, so if you need a semi-fixed / predictable schedule, you can request airport reserve and leave sufficiently early to show up at the airport as you would for a 9-5 desk job.
06-28-2019, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by round2
Any C5 pilots live in PA and drive to EWR? I’ve commuted my whole life and am just tired of it and want to be able to drive to work. Moving my family from CA to the east coast and taxes look most favorable there. Any other recommendations would be great, I have a young family a three and one year old.
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