This is a good way to find out just how entrenched CAL management is in supporting ground staff and flight attendants in lieu of considering pilots point of view, in fact in opposition to pilots. If you make the point of "upgrading" jumpseaters at CAL, you are falling on your own sword. This is a systematic approach to defrock and belittle pilots, both those working in the cockpit and traveling, regardless of the airline that employs that pilot, all at the hands of CAL mgt.

Consequently CAL pilots that have tried to fight this understood policy repeatedly, end up being made examples of. Jumpseat Committee? Ha! Powerless. It serves as yet another example of how compromised ALPA is at CAL.