ZBowFlyz

I used to drive 2 hours to BIL, jump to SEA-ANC-PABE. Going to work was fine. I could make the noon jet to Bethel if I wanted too. Even if the evening was full Id catch the morning jet because... well... who wants to show up in Bethel early?

Going home sucked because you could catch the evening freedom bird to ANC, red eye to SEA and sit till 1pm or something for the BIL dash. I still know where every outlet and chairs with no arm rests in SEA is

RyanP

yup.. nothing like running across Ohare with your roller bag in uniform, looking like a complete idiot, red faced and sweating.. from G-21, or worse L something, all the way to C-99 million for the 2nd or 3rd attempt of the day.. Then you see 8 other red faced sweaty pilots ALREADY at the counter. A quick look at the board also shows a crapload of stby's.. "SonnofaaaB.." THEN, you lock eyes with one of the pilot competition, preferably the weakest, slowest of the bunch (you must quickly do a uniform scan of your competition to determine if they are a serious jumpseat priority threat or not).. and now it's a showdown.. (pilot smart phones quickly searching for next available flight/gate numbers) then, another quick glance at the competition.. Who is gonna run for it?? To get the advantage on the next flight.. You hear that old western showdown music in your head.. "doodiiiiiidooooooo, bow boooow bow.." and you decide to bolt.. back from C-99 million, you bust out a 9000 yard dash to gate F gazillion for the next flight.. you feel great when you get there, you outsmarted all the other chumps trying to commute home that had NO chance in hell on the last flight.. Now, you're First in line waiting to check in, other pilots from the last gate that failed to get on start to show up eventually, you snicker to yourself "suckers".. you plop your credentials on the desk with a big cheesy smile to the gate agent.. then hear the dreaded "sorry Mr pilot, we are weight restricted today and we are asking for volunteers" *%#$@#%@&#$*!!!! Next!

Or my personal favorite.. you are first in line for the jumpseat, no competition, no line, open seats available, no standbys.. but no freakin agent to be found, so you can't check in.. hmmm, nobody is around, you scan the terminal for hostiles (other known jumpseaters).. and determine it's an acceptable risk to go pee. You come back less than 1 minute later to find a line of 35 people including 6 pilots. Gdmmmmmmmmmit! How is that EVEN POSSIBLE??? LOL

Commuters know what I'm talking about.. Good times..

SurferLucas

I thought Atlanta to Seattle was tough at times, I'll refrain from complaining!

It used to be much worse before DL had a base in SEA. With AS having metal on the route + the great folks at DL, I've not had to make a connection anywhere between the two in nearly 4 months.

Speedbird2263

That is absolutely the funniest story I've read on APC to date, elicited some rather raucous laughing on my end See its the verbalization of what had ran through my own head at times and seeing it presented by another to show proof that I'm not the only one

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atdhockey

Yeah I made my fiance do that and she said why dont we just move this is too stressful. I said we cant afford to live in base lol. That was back when I had to get to SYR. Now I have sometimes 7 flights from SDF to EWR. My commute is pretty simple. I dont know how some of you guys do it.

HercDriver130

Cape Town South Africa to Newark.

RunwayOneSix

Shirley you're joking...?

ACessential

I don't know how you people do it. Unless I'm the skipper of Air Force One, I sure as hell am never going to commute half way around the world for this job (of course I say that now because I've never been a commuter). I feel like my crappy 11 day off lines while living in base is worse enough...

crabinow16

Aim doing SEA-MDT usually can get somewhere but the problem is getting to MDT. Out station basing.....ahhhhh

ShyGuy

The moon to MCO (via Cape Canaveral). Commute has become damn near impossile since the Space Shuttle program ended. Still in talks with the Russians...