sevenstroke:
I will also say this...after commuting from San Francisco to Boston, I learned early on that I had better get there in time to have 12 hours in a hotel before reporting for duty...and it cost ME money.
I guess it would have cost her money, too, which I doubt she had.
I got displaced from LAX to STL for 4 months in 1983. I went over the day before for an 18 hour, or so, layover on my dime.
Even then, it finally caused me issues, which proved what I knew all long, that I couldn't commute from LAX to JFK to fly the "coveted" international (when it was far more limited.)