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01-22-2013, 10:38 AM

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BobSakamano

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Airport in East Africa - Johannesburg - ATL - West Coast. Positive space makes it less stressful, but it's 27 hours of flight time each way not including layovers. Over 150,000 MQM, 300,000 Skymiles per year - just from commuting travel, not including travel to Europe for sims twice per year. It is a death march, but I DON'T work for a regional.

I have flight benefits through 2017, but why bother?

Commuting sucks whether it's a few hundred miles or half way across the world.

01-22-2013, 10:52 AM

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Moby Dick

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Brazil to SEA.
Laredo to ANC.

01-22-2013, 11:30 AM

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bhmdiversion

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I know ATL-FRA for FA, FPO-HKG for FO.

01-22-2013, 11:49 AM

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ysslah

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FLowpayFO

The top ones I have heard at my company have been..

PVG-ORD
ARN-ORD
SYD-SLC
BSB-SFO

Crazy people, at that point I'd just quit and go work at a coffee shop while looking for a local flying job.

my wife applied for a job in ZRH and said "well, you can commute to ATL, right?" I told her "no, I'm switching careers if you take the job. I'm going to be a professional beer drinker." Luckily she didn't get the job.

01-22-2013, 11:53 AM

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nbecca

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I hauled a Captain that commuted from Bozemen, MT to Guam. It was a 24 hour commute when CAL had a much larger DEN presence. He figured it would go to 30 hours when he had to start going through IAH.

01-22-2013, 02:52 PM

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EatMyPropwash

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Longest national commute I've seen is a guy from SFO being based in EWR... Yuck.

01-22-2013, 03:00 PM

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marcal

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ATL-HKG

I knew a guy that did MCO-HKG as well

01-22-2013, 03:43 PM

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rcfd13

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Quote:

Originally Posted by EatMyPropwash

Longest national commute I've seen is a guy from SFO being based in EWR... Yuck.

I met an Air Wisconsin captain who lived in Fresno and commuted to PHL. That's probably even longer since it's always two legs.

01-22-2013, 04:16 PM

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bgmann

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I'm not sure what your definition of longest is. Time. Mileage. Or something else. I know i'm not in the running for longest distance.

But most frustrating maybe. I used to commute JFK-SDF-DEN-EGE . JFK-SDF-DEN on UPS. Then wait 4 hours to try for Mesa dash 8 from DEN-EGE. Half the time not getting on the first flight and waiting an additional few hours to maybe make the second flight. I live in base now! DFW.