hockeypilot44

It seems mainline gets a jumpseat over other DCI's on Skywest/ASA and Comair. I'll be damned.

LeineLodge

Any Pinnacle, Mesaba, or Compass care to chime in with their priority. I agree that most gate agents don't know the correct boarding priorities for jumpseaters.

757Driver

Rumor has it that this priority thing is soon to be history. Heard that the big guys are tired of regionals getting priority on more than one carrier and are going to nix it and switch to a first come, first serve for all offline carriers.

Good example would be the Republic folks who get priority on everyone as they serve more than one master.

grumman

What do SS and DCI WO mean?

hockeypilot44

SS - secret service
WO - wholly-owned aka Comair

kalyx522

I COULD be wrong but I think technically Republic guys do not have priority on every mainline their company flies for, but on the mainline that each of them fly for. For example, both a Mesa guy and I were signed up for a US Air mainline jumpseat. Most people would think between the two of us it would come down to TOC since both our regionals fly for US Airways... but he turned out to be on the Freedom side that flies for DCI, whereas I actually fly for US Airways Express (not wholly owned). It took a supervisor to figure it out. In the back of the jumpseat form, it says US Airways Express has priority over offline. Since I have a US Airways badge number which they can use to verify me in the US Airways system, and he didn't, he was essentially offline, and so I had priority. Likewise, when I was based in IAD and only flew for United (did not have US Airways nonrev privileges), I did not have any kind of priority while jumpseating on US Airways.
Unfortunately in all these different situations gate agents usually do not know the correct priority and you will get screwed if you don't search the rules yourself.

757Driver

I've seen Republic Pilots get priority on more than 1 carrier before so I know it happens.

Your post proves how screwed up it is when even the agents are having a hard time deciding who's who in the scheme of things. Frankly I'd like to see the change made and get rid of all the ridiculous priorities.

First come. first serve sounds fair to me.

deltamd90

Pinnacle

Pinnacle pilot (whoever listed first), Delta and DCI (same priority), OAL

Chente

This has been bugging me because I dont have my FOM handy but I would appreciate it if other Delta guys can chime in on this.

I was in the jumpseat today with a Delta employee who works with "Performance Graphs" in the MEL's...I didnt really understand his job description but it sounds like he updates pretty much any graph having to do with performance in our MEL's.
Anyways, I didnt even think they could jumpseat but obviously they can. He said they are allowed to "observe" even though he was using the jumpseat privilege to go on vacation.
I had to run to get on the jumpseat as I was not able to reserve it because it was a last minute kind of thing.
I think I already know the answer to this but....lets say there was already another Delta pilot listed on one of the jumpseats (It was an A320 with two jumpseats) and then this guy reserved the other jumpseat, I could have booted him off correct? I was going to work (That should not matter as he should NEVER Imo be able to bump a Delta pilot off our jumpseat. Only people that can are FAA and LCA doing a line check)
This has been bugging me because I brought up the hypothetical situation to him in cruise and he seemed to believe I could not have bumped him. I think he was full of BS and doesnt understand how the jumpseat priority works. Anyone care to chime in????

Captain Bligh

The Delta FOM isn't available from a company web source?