Originally Posted by
razorblade
Yeah seems that paying the ZED is the painless way out. I don't do it as much as you if you commute, but I'm going to try the recommendation next time and just ask for the manager straight away. Hopefully he/she will know what to do and save me some agony.
I commuted out of canada for a long time. Go to a gate agent at a hub who's not working a flight (and not a douche), and ask them to write down the entires for listing you as a jumpseater. Then you can take these entries and give them to the idiot subcontractors working the desk. (That's what I had to do for years. By the time you teach one person, they'll quit or be fired and you'll find some new trainee that has no clue).