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Originally Posted by Overnitefr8
Reviving this thread for a slightly different scenario. I had a Sunday afternoon 2 leg deadhead today. I don't have to be in position until tomorrow at 1300 CDT. I get to the airport and my flight is cancelled. Every remaining flight this evening on all 3 airlines to my final destination (all 2 leggers) are sold out. I call Corp Travel and they book me in the morning to my destination with a couple hours to spare and one more back up at final check in time. Would it have been ok to j/s on a flight to one of the hub airports to catch a flight tonight to my destination (which I would have paid for)? This would reduce the pucker factor and give me more options. (One more earlier flight in the a.m. from the hub cities) The problem was getting out of my home city not the connecting flights.
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To answer the question:
A reasonable person would say it is OK. But, this exact scenario has caused problems in the past. The flight was overbooked and the gate agent asked the ticket holding crewmember if he could jumpseat to open up a seat in the back. Somehow it got back to airline management as "A ticket holding crewmember was caught jumpseating". Company put out an FCIF stating not to accept a jumpseat if you have a ticket even it is helping out the airline.
The solution:
If you are not deviating - dump the problem on crew scheduling. It is their responsibility to get you in position
If you are deviating - dump the problem on the airline. If you have a ticket it is their responsibility to get you where your ticket was taking you.
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