I'm not sure I see the benefit of hammering the 99% of the pax world employees who have no say in the quality of our interline benefits. Personally, I JS frequently on the pax carriers and I'd sure hate to start a tit for tat deal where they decide to yank our jumpseats.

The current ID75s are a joke in my opinion. Why have to dress up to be the last one on the jet and get row 89G. I'd rather just wait for a fare sale or use a frequent flyer ticket or the miles I get on my MasterCard.

MG2

Reciprocal jumpseats are totally unrelated to interline benefits. In any case, judging by the amount of traffic in the MEM jumpseat lounge, I think the industry is getting at least as good as we get regarding jumpseating.
If United can't see fit to offer us any interline benefit, I see no reason to provide a benefit in return. If we are providing a reduced rate shipping and stopping doing so, hopefully UAL employees will call on their company to provide us a benefit to justify the shipping discount we provide.

I'm not so sure about that? I too, always thought that because we are unable to reciprocate with Interline Travel benefits that we offer discounted shipping in exchange. Are you sure about that? Like has been said above, other Interline employees have always been quite grateful for the benefit :eek:

Great gouge listed above, Tony--thanks for the info. Just didn't want to quote the whole page.

If that is true, than their employers can reciprocate with a benefit related to the product they provide. We give JS to the industry and receive in return. Way more pax carrier employees use our shipping benefit than we use their SA travel. The playing field was uneven before FedEx decided to change the rules and charge for the privilege to boot! :mad:

Personally I really don't find the interline agreements to be all that attractive. Add to that the global travel processing fee and now having to take a stupid test on top of it..No thanks. I am sure it is a benefit to some here maybe in a family of 4 perhaps but then again with boarding priority at the bottom of the heap and with capacity being as thin as it is I just save myself the trouble and buy a ticket. I even tried jumpseating on us (FX) only to be re routed and dumped in another city and the flight cancelled only to find a way to my destination on my own dime. I don't wanna see anything taken away cuz like I said I am sure there are people here who use it but I think your right there are more pax airline employees using our shipping discount then there are people here going to Global Travel and using theirs.

Flying domestically commercially simply isnt worth it period, let alone flying standby ontop, just to sit in 98G between two samoan dudes who havent showered for a week and who smell like ass. Those few times and places where I would go commercial with the family, I'll simply buy a ticket.

What percentage off published rates does FDX give other airline employees?

The exact same % that they give their own employees...:mad: