Cathay can not participate in the CASS system due to the fact that they are an international carrier. In addition, the company jumpseat is not open to the airline's own pilots. It is only used by the company at their discretion to position crews.

The idea of opening up seats in the cabin on reciprocal agreements with other U.S. carriers has been suggested before but Cathay isn't the least bit interested.

The best you can hope for are ID90 tickets on Oneworld Carriers. For U.S. based pilots that means the only afforsable option is flying standby on American at a very low priority.

The bottom line is that a job at Cathay means saying goodbye to the jumpseat and usable non-rev privileges.

Hope this clears things up.