Originally Posted by CANAM

No doubt the crews are good. The problem always sits with the agents. No matter what the airline, it's so often a problem. I've heard every excuse in the books commuting out of YYZ over the past ten years. My favorites include:

1. You can only jumpseat on the weekends.
2. At Contineltal, an agent told me that they only allow "majors" to jumpseat. When I asked about Southwest or JetBlue, he said he'd never heard of them so NO.
3. Only Canadian pilots can jumpseat on Canadian registered aircraft.
4. You have to have buy a ticket and have a confirmed seat to jumpseat (I don't think she understood that this would negate from requesting the jumpseat to begin with).

I'm just saying, there are several barriers to getting in and out of Canada under any jumpseat agreement and over a long period of time, my experiences on Jazz has been 50/50 and always always always related to the agents and NOT the crews.