Originally Posted by
LivinTheDream28
I just give myself the 2 flights and don't stress. If i don't get on the first one, I call and ask to be PSed. Half the time they do it. The other half I know if I don't make it I'm covered. I know you lose the $$, but I can almost always pick something up or have them catch me up to the last 3 days of the trip. International guys it's a bit more difficult if you are only flying 3 trips a month I know. This is from the perspective of a domestic guy. I just use the commuter policy. That's what it's there for. Cheers!
several years ago I had 2 UAL pilots (UAL Metal) in the Jumpseat. One of the pilots was VERY senior and the other JSr was a pilot I had flown with in the past and knew him to be a good guy. Anyway, we are at cruise and the JSr mentions that he had trouble catching a flight to work and he called the Crew Desk and said if they could not get him on the flight, he would not make it to work. He got the JS basically by a higher priority. As soon as the more senior JS heard that he went ballistic saying "You got no right to usurp seniority blah blah blah etc etc.....and I am filing a grievance with ALPA" The guy would not let it go and kept at it making the more junior JSr apologize. I found it hard to take sides on that one because the offending pilot was a buddy of mine. Eventually the matter was dropped, mostly because of steril cockpit and after landing each went about their way.