Originally Posted by
busdriver12
I don't agree that jumpseating on a different flight and the same airline is a bit of a grey area. I think it's clear. You should never jumpseat on a flight you have a purchased ticket for, but nothing else is banned, for even discouraged. Why would a pax airline do a search to see if you were jumpseating on a different flight with them that day, and what could they even complain about that for? Now I actually rarely even jumpseat on a pax airline, usually just FedEx, but I don't see this as a grey area in any way.
I have no idea what a pax airline might happen to notice with regards to the use of their jumpseats.
FedEx is obviously a major corporate customer with well understood needs to position flight crews globally. US carriers offer them a discount to do this.
1. The global travel department buys a ticket for a FedEx pilot from A to B.
2. That ticket gets cancelled.
3. The same pilot utilize his jumpseat privileges that same day to fly the same route, just on a different flight.
It doesn't seem that difficult for a sensible person to connect the dots. Will an airline notice? I have no idea. If they did, what would they complain about? I think that's obvious.
But, this isn't about what a particular airline may or may not notice. It's a simple personal decision concerning use of jumpseat privileges. I don't think it's grey either. I think it's black, you think it's white. The fact that we're having this discussion seems to indicate that it's neither.