EWRflyr

One thing to remember is that a PS passenger is always included in the passenger totals because they are on positive space travel and confirmed in a seat.

Also, Continental employees get "Vacation Passes" each December which move you up in priority over other employees and are fee-waived. Most people save them to use for vacations and overseas trips so they can list in first class on strategic flights with availability. These are fee-waived for employees, spouses, children, parents. Domestic partners/travel companions get to use them free as well but you will incur the tax on the value of the flight for this added benefit.

Regular employees will show as SA3PXX (normal non-rev listing) or SA3VXX (vacation pass listing) with the XX being the year of hire for boarding. If you pull up the non-rev list on Employee Res it will sort in priority order and will give you an idea of where you will fall if you listed using each method. SA1s before SA2s and SA3s, etc. Within that vacation pass travelers come before regular non-revs (Vs before Ps)

So an SA3P80 (1980 hire on regular listing) would come after an SA3V05 (2005 hire on a vacation pass) as an example.

SA4s are dependents, spouses, etc. SA5s are buddy pass riders. Priority for these goes to SA3 if traveling with employee.

Employees first (sorted by vacation pass and year), dependents next (sorted the same), retirees next (sorted by years of service) then buddy pass riders traveling alone.

FYI, ExpressJet employees currently fall under the same listing and non-rev travel policy as CAL employees based on their date of hire. So it is conceivable that an ExpressJet employee (and family members) could get on before an active CAL employee. This does not apply to the CAL jumpseat though.

Clear as mud? I probably could have explained it better.