Check in faster bud. When I was at Envoy I had way more AA guys and gals in my JS going home than any Eagle carrier and I never once had an AA pilot bumped off for an Eagle pilot. And I knew because I was that guy that was religious about checking the G/PALL before push, no jumpseater left behind. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but it is not common at all.

You can either set an alarm and check in on time and give yourself a fighting chance at getting a seat, or have some last minute 45 years at the company gate agent’s teenage kid take your seat, and there’s nothing you can do about that. I’d rather have some say in my destiny…..Leaving AA’s system for a seniority based system sucks dude, you really don’t know how good you have it until you lose it. Lighten up man