Jumpseat Confusion
 

Ok can someone please enlighten me on all these J/S changes I am hearing about? Let’s say I am a Continental pilot and I want to J/S on United and there are 50 seats open in back. I cannot get on unless I pay a fee? I've heard people saying Delta is this way also. So if I am an offline pilot (again lets say for CAL) and I want to J/S on a Delta (NW) flight and there are 30 seats in the back, do I also have to pay a fee? I'm just confused because it’s always been pilots can jumpseat on whomever for free and now it seems that this is changing? I've J/S on a million United and Delta (NW) flights and never had to pay a dime. Is this all different now?

Under our new bennies at 9E. ( Delta Connection ) we have to pay a $50 yearly fee. Unless your riding in the cockpit.....To jumpseat Delta/Northwest and ride in the back this must be payed. Any other carrier outside of Delta we jumpseat just like before. No charges in front or back.

They "fee" everyone is so disgruntled about is a yearly user fee holy owned and contract regionals employees -including families-are charged from mainline/system travel -NR-. It has nothing to do with jumpseating, specially if you are from another airline. If you are OAL and jumpsitting, you are govern by the rules of the 2 airline's agreement -or the Capt's whim-. You should not be charge anything. However, some airlines (Airtran comes to mind) USED to have only one free JS per aircraft. Anything after that would be a 20?? dls charge. I do not know if they still do this. Hope this answers your questions.

Quick, delete this entire thread before some management/executive type reads it and thinks of yet another way to take more from us....

for crying out loud guys... some things you ask your coworkers in person or on the union BBS, not on a public BBS.

so if I'm offline jumpseating on Delta (and I don't work for Delta or any carrier affiliated with Delta) if there are seats in the back I can no longer take one of those seats without paying?

im sure you are fine i jumpseated to germany last month on northwest/delta and came back on united just fine... even got business class :D

There was never any issue with DAL...they will take as many JSers as they can fit in cockpit and/or cabin. No charge for offline, although DCI pilots must pay their annual registration fee (I think).

There is some confusion with UAX employees JSing on UAL, but at least for SKW it appears that UA JSing is still free (cockpit or cabin). There are rumors that UA eventually will only take cockpit JSers for free, and will require an ID90 for cabin JSers. This rumor is not confirmed, and would obviously cause UA pilots to lose their reciprocal JS agreements so I wouldn't sweat it yet.

Not sure if I'd go that far. If it happens they'll just take AA's stance when it comes to the JS.

You know, "management controls the jumpseat, we have no say in it".