My understanding is realized which category would be understaffed and went there. Imagine doing that now with 12 days of reserve in a row and what have you.

Either way, my issue is not with the pilots but rather cheering on Greenslippalooza as a good thing.

Can someone give the cliff note version of our jumpseat priority on DCI carriers? How do we stack up with our friends on Delta colored metal who kindly fly our passengers for us?

Disregard....I was thinking non rev. Not Jumpseat. Sorry.

On CPZ, it goes CPZ pilots, DL pilots, DCI pilots, OAL pilots. It was the same at my last DCI carrier.

1. Operating companies pilots
2. Delta Pilots (1st come first on)
3. DCI pilots (1st come first on)
4. OAL pilots (1st come first serve)

With less than15 mins prior to departure it is a free for all...First there first on.

I did get jammed by a gate agent who put a JetBlue pilot on a mainline jumpseat instead of me (a DCI pilot). So not all gate agents know the priority, ask her to verify with the PIC if there is a question (She wouldn't check with the PIC or let me ask).

Thanks. Exactly what I was wondering. I do believe all DCI's are not the same though. Others? I would think it would be on our ALPA jumpseat committee site, but it's not. Thanks again.

For Expressjet, mainline pilots and all other DCI pilots are the same priority FWIW.

Thx! I believe Pinnacle is as well, unless that changes under the new arrangements. MSA use to be like Compass priorities.

At Pinnacle:
1. Pinnacle (time of check in)
2. Delta/DCI (time of check in)
3. OAL (time of check in)

Thank you for your condescending and completely short-sighted reply.

Your argument sounds an awful like the stuff you hear from gun control zealots: "Why would you want an assault rifle unless you're going on a killing spree?"

I'm not worried about "getting mine;" I rarely call in sick. I'm not necessarily even worried about that stipulation now or in the immediate future. But "this is the way it's worked in the past" is a p!ss poor substitute for ironclad contractual protection (which, historically, we shouldn't expect from ALPA).

I'm concerned that future leadership administrations will use this to take hostages if things get heated in future contract talks, etc. (not that's even possible with ALPA on their side).

Have you seen what Smisek, Horton, Parker, Tilton, etc. have tried to pull? If you think Sleepy Ed or the next sociopath to run the company won't come after us with every loophole they can find if we start growing a spine, I guess I can't help you.

Wouldn't it be nice if ALPA thought a few moves ahead? Think of it as chess, not "go fish."

Would you rather have it the way it is now, or the way it was before?

You're welcome. I appreciate the same in return.