[OldTownPilot]

Well I'm not an international wife, but an international son, so can I answer your questions?

Assuming you say yes, here I go.

Communication: Dad uses T-mobile, 99 cents a minute for short calls. Usually he doesn't call for the 24 hours that he is over there but he has that as an option.

Schedules: He usually bids for 6 or 9 day blocks of work to minimize the commutes. A 6 day and a 9 day is a high time line, and 2 6 days is a low time line. he tries to limit it to 2 commutes for the month.

Housing: He has a crashpad in the Portuguese neighborhood in Elizabeth, NJ, just a few minutes from the parking lot in EWR. Its the upstairs of a ladys house. I've spent the night there a couple of times, so its definitely possible for a wife to stay there if you were traveling with him. It is a true crashpad though, something live 7 beds in a 3 bedroom apt., small kitchen and one bathroom. I would not want to stay there on reserve but as a line holder for a couple of nights a month it works fine.

Transportation: He has a car down there, its good to go around the area to alleviate the boredom that is crashpad life, and to go between the airport and his place. I'm not sure what the public transportation system is like over at JFK

Feel free to copy this over at Jetgirls, I don't have an account over there.