TheFly

I hope they go with USA's. AAL's jumpseat policy is not very commuter friendly.

FreighterGuyNow

Seoul is lovely this time of year.

NedsKid

While Delta's policy is good now, we should identify what is 'industry leading', so:

On Spirit, both Spirit and off-line pilot jumpseaters can use an open FA jumpseat. FA's still have first dibs to the FA jumpseat.

I'm not sure why more airlines don't have this - jetBlue used to allow off-line jumpseaters on the FA jumpseat, but changed the policy to be jetBlue only recently. Since USAPA's pilots lost this recently (AWA had it, East never did), and APA never had it, I'm hopeful that the new AA group can get it back.

While allowing on-line pilots to take the FA jumpseat to open a flightdeck jumpseat is better than nothing, it seems a shame to leave any pilot behind if there's an open FA jumpseat.

I'm glad to hear AA is considering getting rid of the 'international' jumpseat restrictions. Spirit also reciprocates fully, so, right now, we offer unlimited jumpseat access to just about all pilots but AA, who's domestic only, just like we are on them. This really needs to change.

kdogger

I have good and bad news in regard to AA/US jumpseat reciprocity. The good news is that AA has now changed the priority of US jumpseaters. Here's the link: http://www.alliedpilots.org/Public/N...pseatcodes.pdf US now lists ahead of all other 'D6' jumpseaters.

The bad news: Eagle pilots are still ahead of US, as they are listed as D2 travelers.

I say this is bad news, because the policy seems to be a bit uneven. US put AA pilots ahead of pilots of their wholly owned's. But AA did not grant the same to US. Seems like, whatever the policy, it should be equal on both sides.

Wiskey Driver

That will change in pretty rapid fashion. This is just one of those things that got overlooked and once the jumpseat committees really look at everything this is one where they will say "Oh $hit how did we miss that"??

WD at AWA