Originally Posted by
The Blu Riband
from experience:
4 or 5 commutes per month will be very tough, very tiring, borderline unsustainable
Depends where it’s from and also how far you are from the airport at the other end. As I’ve said multiple times before, given nobody lives in the staff car park, absolutely everybody is a commuter to one extent or another. My commute is a 40 minute flight from LHR and it’s no worse than driving, in many ways easier. Having said that we have relatively frequent issues with low level cloud and only a CAT I ILS. So yeah it can get stressful from time to time but I still wouldn’t swap it with living in the U.K. and driving. AMS with the length of flight, multiple airlines and frequencies does not raise particular alarm bells for me unless it’s a major faff the other end. Once you start getting further afield - I’m specifically thinking of the Lisbon commuters and in BA it gets much further than that - then factor in another drive home once you get to the airport then yeah absolutely sod that.