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I believe Amendment eight to the US Constitution would preclude the US government ever making you do two leg commutes. It comes under “cruel and unusual punishment.” If self inflicted it is legal, but if your AME finds out you are doing it you may be heading for a psych eval.

Not much activity on this post recently but like temporarily it can be done. Lotsa people were doing like Corpus Christi-IAH-EWR, or Harlingen, McAllen, Brownsville …(I think I got all the RGV cities)…….Ive seen people do that for like 3 months until a vacancy in “UGH-stin” (IAH) opens up.

But like Singapore-Tokyo-SFO……..which is what my family (basically Wife and her family) is hoping I’ll consider …………not sustainable I think.

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Originally Posted by 11atsomto (Post 3948476)

Well there is a direct from SIN....

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Originally Posted by Freds Ex (Post 3948482)

Well there is a direct from SIN....

Who are you my father in law?

Right you are. 2 in fact. …..4 if you count SIA. Well I hope they don’t find out, then I’ll have to come up with a better excuse than 15.5 hour flight and being away from my kids for weeks at a time.

As for the OP……I still think it’s something you can do only if at least one of the flight segments is super short and many flights a day…..

And even then only temporarily would I advise it.

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Originally Posted by Cleared4appch (Post 3948029)

Oh man, this question brings back some pesky memories of a recent experience I had of doing a 2 leg commute at my regional. Thankfully it was ONLY for 2 months until I was able to get awarded the base I wanted and make my commute a 1 legger again. But it was a long and painful 2 months in the middle of the summer this year, with constant IROPs and delays, even cancellations. It was very stressful. Even coming into my base the night before, and with a late afternoon report into the next day, I still had major headaches with it. Always missed my connection because of the first flight getting delayed for a myriad of reasons, and had to spend the night in the intermediate city and basically do a split commute. Every single time. With the exception of one time, I had some luck in making my second flight, but I had to pretty much high tail it to get to the other gate. Once I got on the aircraft, every passenger was looking at me as I’m huffing and puffing like “why does this pilot look like he just did sprints in the airport??” It sucks all around.

As others have alluded to, it’s almost always never worth it UNLESS you are grinding it out in hopes of getting that base that you’ve had on your radar for a one leg commute. Other than that, ain’t worth it. Not one iota.

In hindsight would it have been better to get an apartment to avoid it for a couple months?

It’s really a conversation to be had with your family, friends and significant other. If you prefer not to do long stretches of work block you can plan on 4-day trips, and in the beginning a commute the day before or after. The net result would be 2, max 3 days at home a week. If you block your work together into one or two blocks then you could plan on being home for 5-7 days but then gone for 7-8 days. Could be challenging unless you have a really strong support structure at home and a solid relationship.

The other issue with such a commute is that you really don’t get to enjoy seniority. After 20 years you would still have to do 4-days, possibly higher time, but hard to get a high time 4-day that is extremely commutable on both ends, so you would probably lose a day off on one of the ends, resulting in a loss of time at home. Compared to living close to base and you can hold two 2-days or high time three days and you are only gone two nights a week.

Regardless it’s a completely different lifestyle than you may want.