Originally Posted by
TED74
A family of four who is able to make two non-rev domestic trips a year could easily save $5,000 in ticket costs that year. That’s 3.5% of his total take-home pay for the year - just on airfare.
You find it embarrassing that one would be conscious of this expenditure, and lament a degradation of their historic non-rev benefit?
Personally, I periodically shop internet rates, cell phone rates, home and auto insurance rates, pay attention to gas price differences, negotiate large purchases…all for less savings than $5,000/year. Never thought I was an embarrassing cheapskate, but I’ll take it under advisement.
Great that you’ve been able to use that perk - WHEN IT WORKS OUT. It’s never been a guarantee that you’ll make it onboard, NEVER.
If you want to lament something that’s actually had the biggest degradation on nonrevving, blame overbooking. We sell more tickets than we have seats for, how is that right to do?
Also, ability to go standby on an earlier flight also hurts the odds of successfully nonrevving. Blaming fellow crew for trying to get to work is asinine, and embarrassing.