Exactly. Buy a ticket. Keep the stress out of it. Your glory days of FC vacations left decades ago. Talk about tone def.

We can talk about to from work all you want, but complaining you couldn’t go on vacation because someone had to get to work is silly.

At least you got on. I’ve had my family members bumped completely for PSC commuters going out with three empty jumpseats. (2 cockpit, 1 cabin). Can someone explain why I should support that as a (currently) non-commuter?

The “cheapskate” argument holds no water. If you’re not buying tickets to commute to and from work you’re a cheapskate too. In fact, buying tickets to work should be all that much easier with the income taxes you’re saving down there in FLA!

Because your family members won't be working a flight for delta. While the employees will be.

Barring the instance of the OP having a base closed on them, I can only laugh. You signed a contract knowing you were going to commute. Kinda goofy to turn it into a one item no vote.

I’m not sure where the mixup is, but I never advocated buying a ticket to work.

I purely meant nonrev on personal time. I would never buy a ticket to work. I’d just use the policy, and if they don’t bump a paying passenger off, then so be it. If they take me off the rotation with no pay, fine; I’ll enjoy my time off.

When I was commuting to work I'd often offer to take the jump seat so they non-revs could get on. That's the considerate thing to do.

The act of nonrevving is not embarrassing.

Screeching about non getting on or not getting first class is what’s embarrassing. At no point in time has nonrevving been a guaranteed seat. It has ALWAYS been a game of roulette.

Nonrevving never came up once during my interview, nor did it ever come up in my personal calculus for taking this job. With how full flights are (even prior to COVID), it’s barely a perk. I treat it as a gamble, and when I have specific events to make it to, I buy a ticket like a normal person who is capable of making risk management decisions. I don’t go onto the internet and whine about seniority.

Nonrevving is not embarrassing. Acting like you’re guaranteed a seat and being put off when you don’t make it on is what’s embarrassing.

It has ALWAYS been a gamble, never a guarantee. Prove me wrong.

No, that is an incredibly stupid suggestion.

3 times I’ve moved to a JS to get a non rev on. My commute flight is short, and a JS is often better than a middle seat in steerage anyway. I doubt I’m the only pilot willing to do this. Of course it’s up the gate agents to ask.