Originally Posted by
Skyward
We don’t dh on offline carriers… only SW flights. Deadheaders are allowed to pre-board and choose whatever seat desired. In a perfect world its not an issue, but the problem arrises when there is a tight connection and pre-board is not an option. In that case it may or may not be a middle seat depending on how full the flight.
There needs to be language to address that situation. Maybe the ops agent informs the operating crew to block an aisle seat for each dh’er that is on tight connect?? Or additional pay if there is not enough connection time to pre-board??
You don’t dh offline. You have a ton of frequency everywhere but it’s a bit hard to believe you don’t have the ability to dh on another carrier. What happens if you divert a broken airplane into a city you don’t serve? Or you were reassigned and contractually want to get back to domicile asap and only other carriers have service left that day?
Most contracts just have the dh middle seat language and it applies on and offline. Maybe start with that for other future unforeseeable scenarios (giving yourself the ability to go offline) and have additional carveout language for swa specific flights due to your boarding.