Does anyone commute from Southern Ohio (Dayton, Cincy, Columbus area) to ORD? How hard would that commute be, and what factors should I look at to see if it is going to suck, or be easy (as commutes go)? Any and all advice will be appreciated...

 

My sister-in-law is a FA for Skywest and lives in CMH, commutes to ORD all the time. I haven't heard too many complaints from her about the commuting. However, she does have to be preppared to use a crash pad or stay in a hotel, if a flight back to CMH can't happen due to duty schedules, etc. Then again what works for a FA's schedule may not work for a pilot.

 

CVG to ORD should be very easy. Many flights a day. Just hope you aren't going for GoJet.

 

CVG-ORD would be the best as there are 22 flights a day. If you can always commute hub-to-hub. (If you can call CVG a hub anymore).

I used to commute EWR-CLT. Since EWR had ground stops and EDCTs almost daily I'd keep track of the flights that departed throughout the day.

I'd print a list of all the flights CLT-EWR on the day I was going home and cross off them as they departed (or were cancelled). So when I was done with my trip at 7pm in CLT I'd know which flight was going to depart next. Some days I'd be on the 2pm CLT-EWR flight at 8pm because of ground stops and EDCTs. Had I not had my list I'd never know the 2pm flight had not left yet.

Links to bookmark on your smart phone.

eSkyGuide - world wide fight schedules
OIS - see which airports are running EDCTS, ground stops, airborne holding and excessive taxis
EDCT LOOKUP - Look up EDCTS of some flights.

Get to know the gate agents and bring them "gifts". If you can get the gate phone number you can give them a call to get the latest info when the weather in ORD goes to crap.

 

Why is that?

 

Why dude? Why? You know d*mn well how this will go so why do you have to flame bait? You're not asking a legitment question. You're trying to incite threat riot. Don't be a jag.

 

I used to do it and it was really easy.....an issue is when a cloud over O'hare and traffic gets backed up(read delays). There's UAL/express, Delta/express, American Eagle, and Hertz.

 

Are you kidding? It's called a rhetorical question to illustrate that commuting on Go Jet is not ANY different than commuting on any other airline. Now, you give me a good and logical (not emotional) reason to not commute on Go Jet......please entertain us.

jackal24's post was the flame bait and inciting the riot, not mine and you know it. You knee-jerk reactionary anti-Go Jetters can't leave well enough alone. This thread has (or at least had) absolutely zero to do with GJ. But people like jackal and you just have to sneak in their comments and wreck an otherwise "legitment" thread.

Don't play dumb. (or a "jag")

 

With where this is going....I feel like I need to add...

IN.

 

oh pleazzz....count me IN!