Barely

All 3 of us in my last crew were commuters. Me from Austin to SLC, the captain from Pocatello, ID, and the first officer from Cedar City, UT (granted it's still Utah it's still a 3 hour drive or a short flight).

It was day four and I just wanted to go home sooo bad! I was constantly thinking about how I could get out of my trip! Hahaha but I just sucked it up and continued flying. We got up early from our haunted hotel in Rapid City, SD and flew to Minneapolis. We got to the runway and had some error messages pop up that they had to reset. It took another 15 minutes or so but we still landed on time. We had a short layover before our nest two flights home and of course it included a swap of airplanes. We got all boarded up and the first officer realized that his crew oxygen mask in the flight deck wasn't working properly so we had to call maintenance. I was really getting nervous. We were suppose to land in SLC at 2:20 PM and the flight to Austin departed at 2:35.....

ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE AIRPORT OF COURSE!!!

Well this was only pushing us further back on time. I was thinking at this point that there was no way that I was going to make this flight and I would have to sit in the airport for SIX hours before leaving SLC and arriving at midnight. I wasn't excited. We were able to make up some time and still landed early back in Rapid City. I asked the ground crew there if we could quick turn our flight and they were supportive of that! So we ended up making up soo much time that we landed in SLC 22 minutes early!!!!

My crew was awesome and understand the importance of getting home when you're a commuter. So they did my seat belts and trash for me to that I could run to the other end of the airport. Only to find out that my flight was delayed 20 minutes. It was nice to get a chance to catch my breath before getting on the flight. I had been up super early so it was a chance to catch a small nap as well.

It's nice when you get a crew that understands that you commute and help you out. It's harder than what most people think. It doesn't get any easier each time you do it but a bit more stressful. I'm definitely looking forward to hopefully some day not having to commute this much!