“She got offered Sydney base and took it. Good on her…she really wanted it that badly. Personally, I could never do it. Spend all that money just to get to work and essentially your whole life on a plane? Thanks but no thanks…” 

A daily commute of some sort to get to work is part and parcel for almost everyone in the workforce, but for flight crew – captains and flight attendants, commuting is somewhat more extreme. Commuting doesn’t mean simply driving to the airport, it means getting to the airport then taking a flight several hundred (sometimes even several thousand kilometres!) to your base city before signing on for duty.