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Originally Posted by Furious George (Post 259598)

I just finished doing it for a couple of months to sit reserve for 9E. The flights can be pretty full but they are also frequent. I never had to leave the night before to make it by 10:00 but I have had to sit up front and and/or taker the second flight.

The last flight out of DTW is usually about half full and will often have empty rows in first.

Commuting worked ok but i'm glad to be back home. I was also glad to have a crashpad there with a shuttle and breakfast/lunch.

Would you mind divulging where your crashpad was located..........I'm looking for one for the rest of November in DTW

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Originally Posted by jumppilot03 (Post 259649)

Try picking a place in the middle like GRB or MKE that are both served by mainline. You could also try smaller cities that are online for you. Don't know if you work for Mesaba or Pinnacle, but you could try CWA, MSN or something along those lines that you would have priority to the jumpseat.

MQT works too with Mesaba. I always had the best luck with MKE because NWA has a bunch of flights back and forth from MSP, but Midwest has quite a few too (and they're a whole lot nicer to jump on than NWA). I had absoutely horrible luck commuting back and forth from and to DTW, way better luck with MEM. But 9 times out of 10 the 10:30PM flight was more than half open. Gives you a lot of time to enjoy the LSD trip that is the tunnel between the A and B+C concourses.