Originally Posted by
trent890
Can you add more details to help narrow the exact situation you are asking about? If there is an expat who works for Cathay or Emirates for example, and is travelling domestically back here in the states then there is no possibility of using a JS pass to ride.
Those two carriers are not in CASS, so riding in the actual flight deck jumpseat on US Airways would not be allowed.
Additionally, those two carriers are also not on the US Airways reciprocal jumpseat list, so an expat employee (pilot) of either of those carriers being able to ride in the back using a JS pass is also not possible. This is similar to how any pilot from a foreign air carrier would be handled, when their airline is not on the reciprocal jumpseat list. Doesn't seem to matter about the birthplace/citizenship/expat status of the employee, it's more focused on the established agreements between the various employing air carriers to allow or disallow various JS travel options.
Use to jump seat from JFK to my home airport with Jet Blue all the time. At the time I was with Ryanair... non-CASS. My first time jumpseating, I submitted my ID and certificates, both US and Irish at the old JFK terminal in 2005. They were excellent to jump seaters. Best part... uniform not required. just ID. It was a seat in the back, which is OK, as the last place I want to sit after doing 100 per month and going home on my block off is in the cockpit.
My current carrier gets me back to the US on their carrier and then to my home airport. No standby... no ZED... just a guaranteed seat
. Just a thought if I wanted to travel around while home on my block off.