magnus0322

I believe you are confusing nonrev priority vs jumpseat priority. We are forced to list AAC for a seat in the cabin. This puts us behind D2 and ahead of D3 on AA and WO / Non wholly owned flights unless it is our own metal.

If for whatever reason the flight gets full we have to cancel our AAC listing and make a D6 listing for the JS. We have to choose. Sometimes we end up behind say a JetBlue or Spirit or Delta pilot because they checked in D6 first. We do not get priority over OAL JS on AA / WO metal.

However an AA and WO pilot did get priority over an OAL JS on YX metal. All we did was make it truly reciprocal and we are asking you to list D6 so we can go by Time Of Check In at the gate. You are now on the same level YX pilots are on AA metal. It means zero to us that you feel AA paid for the flight just like it means zero to you that we support AA through our AE flying. AA / WO pilots are equal to OAL JS on YX metal. Tit for tat. If you feel reciprocity is a jumpseat war perhaps you should check yourself and realize all the non wholly owned FFD carriers have been living with this for years and all our attempts to work with APA / ALPA have fallen on deaf ears. Not a single YX pilot has suggested leaving behind any AA or WO pilot yet we have had at least one YX pilot so far threatened by an AA CA to be left behind if he had to ride the JS.

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Duchess

It was a legitimate question. But can we agree that it is not the fault of the Republic pilot group you can’t list as a D6 online? Maybe we can’t and that’s okay, but I fail to see how that is our fault. And it appears you can list as a D6 at the counter. I think your time would be better spent working with your js committee/aa about why you can’t list as a D6.

Or we have a better solution, ask your js committee to add AAC fdj that way we get priority over oal on AA/won metal and you guys get priority on us after Republic pilots. We each win. I’m not sure why some people on here can’t see that’s the best solution.

busdriver123456

But you can list, a gate agent or a customer service agent could also list, or at the bag counter.

You can you just don’t want to.

Happyflyer

Why can't we just walk up to podium and check-in. There either will be a D6 there or there won't be.
Why do we have to also be a D6? Its RAH, then everybody else, shouldn't matter if we're D1,D2,D3,D4,D5, or D6?
RAH 1st, then checkin time, the "D" shouldn't matter.

450knotOffice

If it were that easy, we’d all do it. But, as has been said, the agents generally won’t do it.

I have YEARS (almost 3 decades worth) of being denied by gate agents. “Sorry, I don’t have time for that...”🙄

busdriver123456

Sounds like you better get good at getting them to or just start complaining to your Company to give them 3rd place on AA flights not operated by RAH then life would return to normal.

Rahlifer

Not trying to be snarky, but wouldn’t you make your life easier by not bothering with the whole “AAC” thing and just listing for the jumpseat? Unless you’re brand new to the industry, you know the flight’s gonna be full and you’re not gonna get on as a non-rev. The only thing I even use the non-rev listing tool for is to look at the standby list. If I see a FDJ listing, I know I’m not getting on that flight and move on to plan b or c or whatever. It literally saves me from wasting my time dragging my butt across ORD or LAX for a flight I have no chance of making.

magnus0322

Why does DL and UA extend us the courtesy of a true reciprocal agreement? They get priority over OAL on our flights and so do we on theirs. Now our agreement with AA is reciprocal as per their treatment of YX

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Longhornmaniac8

Weird. I'm on a flight right now with 95 open seats. I've missed business class internationally on exactly one long haul flight.

I've had to jumpseat on AA once in dozens of nonrev flights on them. Never missed a flight. And I'm not exactly going to podunk places.

Your perception of reality is really warped and jaded. Perhaps by personal experience, but it doesn't change that non-revving is nowhere near as difficult as you're making it out to be.

And when it does get close, yes, we have a choice to make. And it shouldn't need to be that way.

If you don't want to help, that's your prerogative. But how miserable it must be to sh*t on those of us trying to make things better for our pilot group.

dera

You are insanely lucky. Far from the norm.
I went to Asia a while ago. Took me 2 days to get back as a D1. AACs were stuck for a week. My flights were oversold with 80+ people listed for a week straight. No reasonable connections either to 2 leg it.
Out of my dozens of flights, I've been on the JS maybe 75pct of the time.
This is the norm on AA non revving. It's not easy even with D1.