Thank you, 7576FO...I'm personally not at QX anymore but appreciate you taking the effort to change AA's policy re: regional airlines and the int'l list.

You and everyone are totally welcome! I'll keep after this.

reCAL.....years ago the AE gate agents were AE employees.... cant speak for now however that was over a decade ago.

American has operated a flight from Mayberry RFD (RDU) to Gatwick for over 10 years. I know...it's hard to imagine little ol' Raleigh, a country bumpkin cow pasture with service all the way over to that big ol' England. Shucks, next thing you know Mayberry will have d-i-r-e-c-t flights places like New York City and maybe even that big ol' 'Lanta some day. If it hasn't rained too much, they even let that big ol' 777 land on the big long dirt strip. Shoot...we might even get some real concrete runways some day !!

As for jumpseaters, United would allow "regional pilots" who were on the "Approved List" to jumpseat to Europe. I know because I let one of Atlantic Southeast Captain's jumpseat to Heathrow out of Dulles at least four times. He was Swedish and would travel home often to see family. Even with the new security procedures, any 121 pilot in the system, is ALWAYS welcomed.

dojetdriver,

Calm down big boy. The major's don't look down on you for the size airplane you fly, etc. You need to relax on the tone a bit. The AA flyer doesn't have to go the extra mile at all for you or anyone else but he is. You pull the typicall Bill O'Reilly let's use some incediary talk to flame the situation and get attention then back off and apologize as if that's not what you meant. I flew with two regionals for ten years in between furlough and I've never seen the jumpseat denied based on who you worked for. That said, it often times is corporate security driving the use of international jumpseating.

BTW, I like the Maiden sign. Did you know that Bruce Dickenson is flying 757's for a British charter company. He apparently flew a whole plane filled with fans to Iceland for a concert then sang the show. Outstanding!

Apparently you didn't read all of reply #8, the last part, #20, where I clarified, or #24, where somebody else picked up on the humor. Instead of telling to calm down, maybe you should read ALL the replies before you respond, "big boy". I didn't need to back off or apologize. And I never expected anybody to go the extra mile for me. Only pointing out the fact that there in not a true reciprocal agreement in place when it comes to some airlines.

Yep, already knew that;

http://airlinepilotforums.com/showthread.php?t=19136

Since some were interested in RDU. AA starts RDU to London Heathrow on Mar 30 08

A newly added proposal on the APA Contract negotiating website is the we (APA) are requesting complete control of the Jumpseat and Lists for Domestic and International. AA would still be required to update CASS and DECS (our Sabre software).