Originally Posted by vyperdriver

For me and many others, once your schedule has been posted, most of us have been booking company seats to and from work for the entire month. This solves a lot of issues. If something comes up and we get sick for instance, we cancel the seat as soon as possible. Like mentioned, depending on if you wait too long to book or on reserve, you may run into a issue using PS. Once the aircraft gets so full, for example, , it may become impossible to book due to previous company policy on positive space seating when an acft gets to a certain fullness, even if the flight shows a seat available. In these cases we call our pilot assist who has authority to book the seat anyway. We can't book first class seats only economy class. 24 hours of we can upgrade to comfort plus (business) if seats are available. The company does, however, close off a few seats that only gate agents can manipulate in loading the flight so as to accommodate injured people and a few upgrades for pax. Being able to project the seats has been a win win win for company, commuters and pax. In our commute clause, the company often would positive space us if our primary flight was canceled, over sold etc. In these cases a pax might be removed to get a pilot on. This company sees less "tactical sick," unable to commute, we get to work less stressful and a pax isn't inconvenienced by being booted to a later flight. As I stated, one base closure, one type of aircraft retirement etc. Is all our took for a bunch of guys to become a commuter.