Do you have to pay to non-rev your own airline?
09-21-2008 | 07:43 PM
#42
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I've found that if you wait to board last and first class happens to have seats open, you have a good chance of being offered the seat. It also helps having the wholly-owned ID badge, as it's the same as Mainline's and the FA's often don't seem to know the difference.
09-21-2008 | 08:20 PM
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NWA family used to be free on the company you worked at but a fee on the rest of the family. i.e. worked at pinnacle but taking a mesaba flight would be a fee. but mesaba taking a mesaba flight free for either coach or first. Now travel is free in coach on any family flight but first class has a fee even on your own company. There was never an issue to jumpseat to avoid the fee like you are describing, and now it's not an issue since there is no fee unless you are in first. which I suppose if that happens you just request the jumpseat and avoid the fee. Not that there is ever a seat in first open with all the ways people get to upgrade now....
09-21-2008 | 08:34 PM
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NWA family used to be free on the company you worked at but a fee on the rest of the family. i.e. worked at pinnacle but taking a mesaba flight would be a fee. but mesaba taking a mesaba flight free for either coach or first. Now travel is free in coach on any family flight but first class has a fee even on your own company. There was never an issue to jumpseat to avoid the fee like you are describing, and now it's not an issue since there is no fee unless you are in first. which I suppose if that happens you just request the jumpseat and avoid the fee. Not that there is ever a seat in first open with all the ways people get to upgrade now....
09-22-2008 | 07:46 PM
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09-22-2008 | 08:08 PM
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So... you think that a parent of a sub-contractor for Delta should have priority over a family member (brother/sister) of an active Delta employee? Not flaming, just curious as to your logic. Is it the same thing if the flight is operated by ASA, or do your parents have a higher priority on those?
Can someone explain to me how that's fair. As I have said before, the Buddy Passers should be the absolute last people to get on the aircraft. I feel like it's an insult by Delta.
09-23-2008 | 05:50 AM
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Domestic $10 one-way for coach/$40 one-way for first (plus $2.50 per leg up to $5.00 security fee)
US to Canada/Mexico $30 OW for coach/$60 OW for first (plus above fee)
US to Europe/Asia/India/Israel $50 OW for coach/$130 OW for BusinessFirst (plus above fee)
09-23-2008 | 12:22 PM
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Yeah but why should parents of Delta regionals go as the same priority as buddy passers?! Am I the only one who thinks this is a slap in the face to us regional guys?
09-24-2008 | 06:00 AM
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That's what I was getting at. At my airline, (DAL,) my sisters get on first before your parents. At your airline, (ASA,) your parents get on before my sisters. Not to be a jerk about it, but they are two different airlines. What is your parents priority on Freedom, Shuttle America DCI flights? Granted, the wholly-owned are treated differently. That is how the airlines chose to structure the deal. Considering that close to 60% of domestic capacity is on DCI, and the majority of that is by NWOs, I'd say that the DAL employee is getting the short end of the stick.
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