you jumpseat on a mainline that your regional doesn't fly for, can your regional still look up your name somehow in the system? For example, if you work for Colgan and you jumpseat on Delta, can Colgan still find out if you were on a certain flight or not?

 

Why? Did you call in sick and now you want to non-rev?

Yes, they can track you. They can pull up a CASS inquiry!

 

In the old days, your company could not easily access the records of a non-affiliated carrier...they would not have any electronic connectivity. It's possible that a chief pilot-to-chief pilot phone call would have resulted in shared info...but they would have had to call a lot of airlines unless they already knew which one you used!

Today we have CASS...everybody has a access to a common system. Every CASS lookup generates an audit trail...I don't know for certain, but strongly suspect that any CASS carrier can quickly pull up that audit trail for it's own pilots. This would not prove you flew, but rather that a gate agent CASS-verified you...this would still be a large smoking gun.

Basically unless your company is suspicious of you, I doubt they would have any reason to look at your CASS records. I suppose it's possible that some really obnoxious companies routinely research the JS/nonrev histories of pilots who call in sick, but I have never heard of that.

If you are in some sort of conflict with your company, better assume they can obtain any info they want and play it safe.

 

sounds like someone is trying to bend the rules a little bit. just dont bite off more than you can chew.

 

Be careful bud...I know a Flight Attendant that did what I think you are going to do, and her non-rev privelages were yanked without her knowing. She then had to pay for her way home from the Caribbean.

Just trip trade! I used to make "mini vacations" for myself all of the time! That way, I didn't have to chash in my paid vacation! Learning how to "work the system" will come with experience...trust me...