Originally Posted by
highfarfast
My comments weren't meant to be a complaint about the addition of A12. That of course is an improvement even as standby. I just wanted to point out that if we're still just doing A12 via HIGO like I was told to do when I did Home Based TDY, then it's not really positive space. Someone earlier in the thread pointed out there can be another way to book it where you can see which flights you can book positive space through the Travel Planner but that was not presented as an option to me back then. Hopefully it will be in the future.
I brought up booking A12s through the travel planner vs. HIGOA earlier in the thread. I heard back from the travel team, and they said they had not received guidance yet on how we are to book the travel, but said we could email them or the Envoy travel desk if we do not 'initially' get the required permissions to book A12s through NRTP.
Finding E-Space (confirmed space) should not be too difficult, especially more than 14 days out, but there will be some flights that it is never available, and you will have to be a revenue standby should we elect to take that flight. E-Space (A12s) works pretty well, but even as a manager at HDQ, it was still required that we travel for business as A12s.
The way I would proceed, is once the guidance is finalized on when we can start booking A12s for commuting...I would email the travel desk insensately to find out which flight have E-Space available, to the point of annoyance, such they give us that functionality. The way I see it, if we can book via HIGOA, there is no reason why they should not give us the same functionality in the NRTP.