Originally Posted by
Rahlifer
Not trying to be snarky, but wouldn’t you make your life easier by not bothering with the whole “AAC” thing and just listing for the jumpseat? Unless you’re brand new to the industry, you know the flight’s gonna be full and you’re not gonna get on as a non-rev. The only thing I even use the non-rev listing tool for is to look at the standby list. If I see a FDJ listing, I know I’m not getting on that flight and move on to plan b or c or whatever. It literally saves me from wasting my time dragging my butt across ORD or LAX for a flight I have no chance of making.
Weird. I'm on a flight right now with 95 open seats. I've missed business class internationally on exactly one long haul flight.
I've had to jumpseat on AA once in dozens of nonrev flights on them. Never missed a flight. And I'm not exactly going to podunk places.
Your perception of reality is really warped and jaded. Perhaps by personal experience, but it doesn't change that non-revving is nowhere near as difficult as you're making it out to be.
And when it does get close, yes, we have a choice to make. And it shouldn't need to be that way.
If you don't want to help, that's your prerogative. But how miserable it must be to sh*t on those of us trying to make things better for our pilot group.