Originally Posted by
MasterOfPuppets
I commuted for my first 5 years. It’s fine. People just want the DL way to be sitting at the computer at midnight waiting for the clock to hit zero so they can sign up for a ride……I want to hear what these same pilots say when they are top 100 seniority playing a BS game after 30 years. My bet is they will say that the DL way is BS because they are senior….
At United you give yourself 2 flights, if you don’t make it you call the crew desk and the positive space you if they need you…If not you go home. Of the 2 or 3 times that happened they positive spaced me.
We have some losers here that just show up and don’t list but there is not many. commuting sucks no matter what….there is no good commute.
This is only partially true and somewhat misleading. At Delta, there is a time "game" to booking a jump seat based on first come first served. However, it is triaged for importance. Going to work? 5 days prior the window opens for booking. Going home from work? 3 days prior the window open up. Non-reving and want a back up jump seat? A day prior the window open up.
So, I like that their system prioritizes work related jump seating over non reving Maybe a cross between both systems could achieve commuter nirvana.
Probably not achievable when some suffer from "We have the greatest system, no changes needed" syndrome.