Originally Posted by
JetBlast77
Ok can someone please enlighten me on all these J/S changes I am hearing about? Let’s say I am a Continental pilot and I want to J/S on United and there are 50 seats open in back. I cannot get on unless I pay a fee? I've heard people saying Delta is this way also. So if I am an offline pilot (again lets say for CAL) and I want to J/S on a Delta (NW) flight and there are 30 seats in the back, do I also have to pay a fee? I'm just confused because it’s always been pilots can jumpseat on whomever for free and now it seems that this is changing? I've J/S on a million United and Delta (NW) flights and never had to pay a dime. Is this all different now?
They "fee" everyone is so disgruntled about is a yearly user fee holy owned and contract regionals employees -including families-are charged from mainline/system travel -NR-. It has nothing to do with jumpseating, specially if you are from another airline. If you are OAL and jumpsitting, you are govern by the rules of the 2 airline's agreement -or the Capt's whim-. You should not be charge anything. However, some airlines (Airtran comes to mind) USED to have only one free JS per aircraft. Anything after that would be a 20?? dls charge. I do not know if they still do this. Hope this answers your questions.