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Originally Posted by FDXLAG
So for you the moral objection is if you actually had a ticket reserved. What if the next Capt or company objects if you had a trip scheduled in your line before you canceled it by deviating. After all in some esoteric way you are costing his company money by deviating and not taking the scheduled Deadhead.
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It's not MY moral objection. Actually, morality has nothing to do with it. It's just common sense. If your use of the jumpseat on an airline denies that same airline revenue because you had a ticket for the same city pair, you're misusing the jumpseat. We're not talking about future projected income that you negate an airline via deviations. We get refundable tickets for a reason. Plans change for us just like any other passenger. You're really reaching with that. Let's stay in the reality ballpark here.
He cancelled a ticket on an airline and then used the jumpseat on that same airline to move between the same city pair for which the ticket was purchased. There's a paper trail there and someone who cared at that airline could come to our jumpseat committee with a legitimate complaint.
That doesn’t need to be put into writing. It’s inherent in every jumpseat agreement. This exerpt is directly from the ALPA jumpseat policy.
Never, under any circumstances, jumpseat on a flight off line in which you hold a revenue ticket. And never, ever, let a gate agent "talk you in to" riding the jumpseat instead of using your ticket on the flight. To do so, violates ALPA policy, most airlines' jumpseat policies and industry protocol. It may immediately jeopardize your reciprocal agreement between the two carriers.
Do you really think the passenger carrier is going to split hairs and give us a pass because the guy jumpseated 24 hours earlier than his original ticket? I would submit that’s not the intent of the above restriction. We need to avoid any hint of impropriety and sliding your plans a day, then jumpseating on the same airline is wayyyy too questionable, IMO. Definitely not worth risking our jumpseat agreement with any carrier.
Either jumpseat on Fedex, take the scheduled DH or pick another airline to get where you really want to go when you really want to get there. It ain't rocket science.