Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
Those travel perks can be hard to use for family travel I've heard many an airline pilot muse. Also - with travel being your lifestyle - I know a lot of pilot I work with - travel is the last thing they want to do with their time off.
As with many things - each case and circumstance is different. Just have those conversations with yourself and the others whom are involved to make sure you KNOW what you are getting yourself into - then take it from there!
The travel bennies are most used when you're young and single/childless. Then life happens and it gets hard to nonrev with two working adults plus kids.
Once you're a senior CA with the kids out of the house and the spouse retired so she can follow you around, then back to non-revving again. At that point you can afford a full walk-up fare if you get stuck.
Between those two points, not so much although I'll usually jumpseat even when the family's traveling on a revenue fare.