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Old 03-09-2007 | 05:35 PM
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Default Did not have to look to far to see what you are saying is not true

Originally Posted by captjns
Understand its not the pilots, but management. During beers at the 3 Horse Shoes a while back, it is the desires of Mgt. that no full fare paying passenger paying upwards of $7,000 round trip should sit next to a non revenue pax who only paid the taxes to travel.

MAXjet on the other hand are willing to take both pilots and cabin crew whenever there is an empty seat, provided they are on the jump seat agreement list.So if and when an EOS crewmember needs a ride some place, have a heart, and understand that if they could they would extend you an invitation to ride.
Also the last time I jumpseated on Frontier there was a fellow from a carrier that was not on their list and he did not make it on the flight. I informed the Captain when I went down and he would have got him on but the other jumpseater left when he could not get by the gate agent. From what I have heard Eos is going by a list also, and it is growing all the time.

I think you are short changing all the hard work done by all the jumpseat folks at all the airlines that have worked so hard to make the present state of jumpseating what it is today. Each one of the pilot groups have fought a long uphill battle in some cases and even had to lose some ground on other issues at the table to secure jumpseats. My personal thanks goes out to all those individuals and from what is being said it seems that the Eos pilot group is fighting some of those same battles and indeed making progress. If they are the same as most airlines they are probably sacrificing personal time to do this work for the betterment of their pilot group at large.

My suggestion is how about backing off and letting these folks fight their battles. The answers are only within the realm of current possibilities, that certainly expand as time goes on. Take Delta for example it took years for the company to come around and now they even let on as many jumseaters as they have open seats. This would have been thought impossible just a few short years ago.
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