Originally Posted by
IWalkJun12
Ya'll have been fighting this fight for how long? 10 years? I got in this business in 98 and it was an issue then. Don't leave guys at the gate start giving them buddy passes if you don't want us to leave AA guys. Doing all ya can? Have you given out 1 pass? Have rode on a pass so another guy could JS? Prob yes for the second but I doubt yes to the first.
AMR "buddy passes" changed afer 9-11. We don't carry the old blank forms that we could give to anybody at anytme... we now have a fixed number of people we can list in the company computer system as "guest travelers" and they can only be changed yearly... If we add somebody onto the list, they are on there for a full year. From comparing travel benefits with other carriers, ours now sux.
Honestly, the latest attacks on our jumpseat ability started with jetblue. I got a peek at al old ALPA jumpseat guide from several years ago, and the only legacy/major/national that required pilots to list before travel was jetBlue. Yes, you "could" list with several others, but only JB required it. Now several are copying suit and requiring pilots to list instead of listing at the gate... including AA. It's a bad trend, and we all need to work together to retake control of our jumpseats. Being a jackazz and not letting somebody on doesn't help anybody.
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