Originally Posted by pad39a

If you’re willing to consider the perspective of a 9E guy, I very much appreciate the S3A priority. It helps me get to work to fly the planes that retirees nonrev on. And it helps me get home.

I certainly respect that you and your family contributed 30 valuable years to mainline, and that’s more than me and my family have contributed to 9E. But your contribution of 30 years dwarfs the contribution of, say, a 10-year mainline employee and their family, so you should go ahead of their S3 passes too. Shouldn’t that also be corrected?

I think there’s value in the contributions of active employees, mainline or regional. Actually, I wouldn’t mind seeing retirees get S3A like 9E. I do respect the decades of contribution to mainline. But that would also make it more difficult for me to get to work, and I would probably need to use the positive space commuter clause more often.