Originally Posted by
Justdoinmyjob
Family and friends. I only give them to family I don't want to ever see and friends I hate. It costs $50.00 for my family to travel all year. If my sisters or their husbands wanna fly Delta, ticket prices are low enough. I'd rather the company make money on revenue passengers rather than freeloading family members.
FCFS works well for the jumpseat, we're talking a pool of 11000+ using it. Trying to beat 80,000 other employees out for a seat would seem onerous in my opinion. Besides, good luck getting the senior cat ranchers to bite off on that proposal.
FWIW, it hasn't always been free. It used to cost $15.00 a flight segment to nonrev and there was no jumpseat at all.
We will have to agree to disagree. Of course eveybodies situation is different and you don't mind the mileage based system that has gone through the roof. FYI, the Alaska pilots buddy passes come in roughly half of what Delta charges (don't bother telling me to go work there for the buddy pass benefits).
Those friends and family members who understand how the system works have really appreciated it when I could hook them up in the past and I am happy to do so. One thing we can all agree on, Delta needs to make more money at the cost of everything else. Certainly let's not see about improving travel benefits and a host of other areas because the company needs to make more money.
