Originally Posted by
PerfInit
Commuting is not for everyone. It really sux in my opinion. Remember 9/11/2001? The cockpit jumpseats were prohibited for many years (unless riding on your own airline). This was prior to CASS for those that are too young to remember. There was a time that folks had to buy ZED fares or even full fare tickets to get to work.
Not too young to remember, I was there, but that's not entirely true.
That only lasted till maybe late mid 2002. It was on your own airline, as well as airlines that could verify your employment. Meaning, an Express, Connection, Airlink carrier was allowed on their mainline partner and vice-versa.
But YES, commuting back then sucked, commuting before CASS sucked. Had to buy tickets a few times as well as 2 leg it on what WAS a single leg commute till that all got sorted out.