Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
It definitely was a thing for a long time. When I first started here in the mid 20teens, it was practiced and enforced. A few years later pilots especially started saying eff this and not doing it. Now it is in the employee travel manual, but it says should when possible, which to me means completely optional. I have wasted enough of my life waiting for people to get off of airplanes.
Of course now it doesn't matter anyway. We are going to be in 24B and like it.
UA needs WN LCO language. Just got reassigned to operate and layover in LGA instead of DH to OMA layover, from the west coast. Got nothing....
WN needs UA DH language.
5-C-1 When On-Line deadheading on a Basic Flight, a Pilot shall be booked positive space in First Class, if available at
time of booking. If First Class is not available, the Pilot shall be booked as outlined below, and up until three (3)
hours prior to scheduled departure time, shall be upgraded automatically (in seniority order within Status and
ahead of all upgrading passengers) if a First Class seat becomes available.
A Pilot whose deadhead is booked under this Section 5-C-1 shall not be required to deadhead in
Economy Class if the seat is not an Economy Plus or Premium Economy seat (you can walk off if they give you 24B)
If a Pilot is required to deadhead in a middle seat in Economy Class (including Economy Plus and
Premium Economy), they shall receive Add Pay equal to fifty percent (50%) of the scheduled Flight Time of
the deadhead leg.