USAir does not currently charge their mainline employees for non rev travel.

They used to charge an annual fee of $150 per employee or around $270 per family to non rev on USair. (unlimited travel for employee, spouse, children and parents)

Dave Siegel eliminated the annual non rev fees when he was in charge of USAir. There was never an explaination of why the fees were eliminated.

However, this caused another problem in that some employees started receiving 1099's for 10% of the value of the airfare that their travel card designees used. They had some quirky formula that caused "1099 imputed income" for some unmarried employees and not for married employees. This then caused income tax issues for those employees that were subject to the 1099's.

I always thought that the 1099 problem would go away if the annual fees were put back in place.

What has been said is correct; it is just about impossible to non-rev on USAir these days.