American interviews and class dates
02-06-2016 | 08:49 PM
#3861
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With Delta and United you just show up at the gate. With SWA they want you to call the non-rev number to list yourself ahead of time. Prepare for LONG wait times on the phone.
02-07-2016 | 08:00 AM
#3862
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If I go to LUS, could I still reserve a jumpseat on a LAA flight?
02-07-2016 | 08:04 AM
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It's not bad, I've had a lot of success between DEN and PHL on UAL. Your competition on that route is usually other AA guys and AWAC guys.
The real issue is when you can reserve the JS, (which we currently can at AA) it is literally stress free. You book it and forget it. I never check loads and basically just drive to the airport on my commute day, fully expecting to make it to work. With OAL's you never really know what the situation is going to be till you get to the airport. You don't have inside access to loads and are at the bottom of the barrel for the JS.
Do you know which side you're going to yet? By the way, I don't think it will matter by this time next year. If you get LUS, your choice will be made, because you'll get the 190 to PHL.
One other piece of advice, since you have no experience at this. Commuting is a mind set. You have to embrace the positives of it (living where you want...near family, skiing, etc) and never feel sorry for yourself. Once you get negative about it, you're done, you'll hate it.
The real issue is when you can reserve the JS, (which we currently can at AA) it is literally stress free. You book it and forget it. I never check loads and basically just drive to the airport on my commute day, fully expecting to make it to work. With OAL's you never really know what the situation is going to be till you get to the airport. You don't have inside access to loads and are at the bottom of the barrel for the JS.
Do you know which side you're going to yet? By the way, I don't think it will matter by this time next year. If you get LUS, your choice will be made, because you'll get the 190 to PHL.
One other piece of advice, since you have no experience at this. Commuting is a mind set. You have to embrace the positives of it (living where you want...near family, skiing, etc) and never feel sorry for yourself. Once you get negative about it, you're done, you'll hate it.
Very well put sir.... More people need to figure that out.
02-07-2016 | 08:21 AM
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The jumpseat program is integrated. If you go to the U.S.Air side you can reserve the jumpseat on LAA flights. BTW, it's getting harder to tell which flights are LAA and LUS.
The ability to reserve the JS won't change with the SLI. The reservation system is the chosen system going forward. Some in the union want to change it. IF it were to change it would likely be to a hybrid seniority reservation system where you reserve the jumpseat based off of seniority until 3 days prior, then first come first served.
02-07-2016 | 08:22 AM
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I think what he's getting at is in the future there will be one class, with all the domicile choices, no "sides".
Jumpseat reservations looks like they are here to stay, at least for now.
02-07-2016 | 10:09 AM
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02-07-2016 | 10:27 AM
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That's good for everyone. Not happy he delayed two of the A350s. Doug is a tricky guy.
02-07-2016 | 01:23 PM
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02-07-2016 | 03:18 PM
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An educated guess: The A350 and the LAA widebody orders were made based on stand-alone business and fleet plans. Now that we're a combined entity, they don't need that much growth all at once. It would hurt the company financially to absorb widebody purchases that outpace their international growth/replacement plans...ie, airplanes sitting on the ledger that cost $ but without enough flying to properly utilize them.
Better to have them delayed than cancelled. We'll get those airplanes on property, but as others have stated throughout these threads, mergers rarely produce immediate growth. There's almost always some contracting to be done.
Better to have them delayed than cancelled. We'll get those airplanes on property, but as others have stated throughout these threads, mergers rarely produce immediate growth. There's almost always some contracting to be done.
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