Ryan Currie and Kailey Gonzalez don’t just travel for work, travel is their work. When the couple, both commercial airline pilots from Phoenix, Ariz. and both 29, accepted jobs with Envoy Air, a regional American Airlines carrier based out of La Guardia Airport, they wanted to minimize the amount of time it would take them to get there.

Still, Queens is far from compact, so, ‘How fast can you get to LaGuardia?’ quickly became more than a casual conversation starter in their queries to brokers and leasing agents.

They were happy, then, when they found LeFrak City, a sprawling postwar housing complex in Corona, Queens, that, on a good day, is just a 10- or 15-minute drive from the airport.

They moved into the complex last winter, selecting a renovated one-bedroom from the options sent over from the complex’s leasing agent after an initial tour of the property. He had, at the time, lamented that he wasn’t sure how to sell them on a place where they would hardly spend much time. Between their flight schedules and personal trips — one of the main perks of being a pilot is the free flights — they sometimes spend only 12 days a month in the apartment.