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Airfix
Her look I get it. You want to get to work. I've commutted for 5 of my 15 airline years and i might commute again so I understand. I only missed 1 commute in those 5 years. Having said that non-revenue benefits used to be quite a big part of why flying at an airline was so attractive opposed to fedex or corporate.
Over the years that benefit has slowly been eroded to the point it has become really difficult to plan vacations. The positive space commuting policy just erodes that further.
And again if the call in honest policy works and you'll get to work anyway why change it?
Hey look I get it as well. You want to travel the world on the companies dime. I remember sitting first class all the time, I prior to all the upgrade programs. Or having a row with only me in it.
If you really want to plan vacations just buy a ticket. I mean really, you probably are in the top 5% of income in the country and you are depending on open seats to vacation?
Why? We don’t fly the same number of trips from where I commute from? Pre-COVID there was 8 from one airport and 10 from another, both within an hour of my house. Now I have 4 and 6. That’s why change it. Now for a 1 PM departure I could actually sleep in later and drive 4.5 hours then follow the UTC policy. Because of the 2 flight policy I’m trying to make a 5 am followed by a 6. Pre COVID that wasn’t an issue. It was a 9 and 11. Big difference.
Add in the reliability fact of knowing your pilots have a seat should mean less need for SC or last minute GS calls. Once again a benefit to you going on vacation, there was a 745 or so call out for a 755 report. If that’s your trip I bet your not liking the odds of it departing anytime soon. Oh so they cancel the flight. Hmmm now all the paying passengers are bumped to the next flight and you are out of luck all together.
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