Originally Posted by
SilentLurker
that back in the day carriers use to charge employees for traveling standby mostly discount fares. All this came out of his mouth in a gist. Used his friend in the banking industry as an example. Said he doesn’t know any other industry that provides such benefits to its employees.
Just to clarify, this was in reference to employees L7+ (directors and above) whom get positive space travel for leisure...essentially A1s to use instead of D2/D1s. This is part of their compensation (and they are taxed on it as income), and the company recognizes that they would loose a lot of talent if L7s+ lost this benefit, but he did absolutely say that the industry should never have offered the A1s to leadership back when it became industry standard back in the 1970s/1980s.
I can certainly be a critic of AAG, but they love these offering standby benefits...it allows them to offer less pay to all employees (management included), and just think if they did not want to offer the ability to commute...they would have to pay $25,000+ per employee every time they displaced.