Originally Posted by
ancman
So our standard at Delta should be that you need to spend at least 42 years here before non-reving has any practical value? An AA employee could have enjoyed more predictable non-reving for that entire first 42 years of their career.
I have both Delta and AA passes. The AA system is a mess when things get busy. All this posts about mythical employees with 5 kids constantly showing up at the last moment are extremely rare. It happens but they are probably last minute because they missed another option.