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Old 01-26-2014, 01:06 PM
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It seems the new american non rev priority to be implemented in the future has pilots and eligible travelers on the same boarding tier- decided by time of check in within the tier. Is this correct?
If so does anyone else have an issue with someone's domestic partner, registered guest etc going ahead of a pilot on his way to work? I hear it used to be this way but changed. Coming from the airways side this all new... Has anyone voiced any resistance to this?
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It seems the new american non rev priority to be implemented in the future has pilots and eligible travelers on the same boarding tier- decided by time of check in within the tier. Is this correct?
If so does anyone else have an issue with someone's domestic partner, registered guest etc going ahead of a pilot on his way to work? I hear it used to be this way but changed. Coming from the airways side this all new... Has anyone voiced any resistance to this?
pilots aren't the only employees of an airline, you know...
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Old 02-02-2014, 11:34 AM
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That was the policy at America West.
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Old 02-02-2014, 06:47 PM
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Its crap that a (non-accompanied) dependent and and the primary employee are now in the same boarding group.
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thats the way it is at some other airlines, too bad they don't keep a priority for employees traveling over unaccompanied dependents

there will be tweaks im sure just keep sending in emails, you cant get stuff changed on this forum it has to go up the chain at work
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That's the way it has always been at Delta. Until the kids are 23, they can pass ride alone with the same priority as the employee. Time of check in has no bearing on priority however. Strictly date of hire, unless it's a through flight at an intermediate stop, the non-rev onboard already has priority over anyone trying to get on at the intermediate stop.

About 25 years ago my wife was trying to get from BOS to FLL to go to work, she was a Delta F/A at the time. She missed out on the last seat out of BOS, which was taken by the 17yr. old son of a more senior pilot, who was on his way to Spring Break. We didn't have access to our own jumpseats back then, front or back. She did not make it to work.

Now that we do have jumpseat access, I almost always book the jumpseat vs. trying to get a seat in the back, unless it's a very light load, but I haven't seen much of that in years. I'd rather sit up front and talk to pilots vs. being squished into a center seat in the back...unless it's a 737, that jumpseat is torture!

Do you still have to pay extra to get into an empty Business Class seat when non-reving at AA?
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Originally Posted by AZFlyer View Post
pilots aren't the only employees of an airline, you know...
This is Airline PILOT Central, no?
I kid…
My post expressed dismay at domestic partners, registered guests etc going ahead of a pilot or any other employee for that matter. "Eligible Travelers" was refering to other people on the employee's pass.
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I agree that employees (of any stripe) should bump unaccompanied dependents (of any seniority). My kid was going somewhere (leisure travel to meet friends) and he called and told me he made it but barely got on, and one of our pilots (in uniform going to work) got bumped. I lit into him over that, everybody in my family knows better.
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Doesn't USAirways have JS reservations? AA does not.
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Timbo,
Believe the stopover flt caveat died a couple of years ago now the reshuffle. I used the stopover flt rule to get to HnL a couple of times in the past but modern tech has made that caveat sail on by.
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