FA Jumpseat discontinued UAX SkyWest[edit]
 

Well it looks like UAL is at it again. Found out yesterday from an outstation agent that Skywest will NO LONGER accept cabin jumpseating as per a memo all outstations received..

"Cabin Jumpseat Agreements on UAX flights operated by SkyWest have been
discontinued.
Flight Attendants requesting NRSA travel on UAX flights operated by SkyWest
must be electronically authorized or possess a paper NRSA ticket such as
an ID 90 or ZED fare.
Pilots may only travel OMC in the Flight Deck as authorized by CASS. Pilots
requesting NRSA travel in the cabin on UAX flights operated by SkyWest must
be electronically authorized or possess a paper NRSA ticket such as an ID
90 or ZED fare."

electronically authorized sounds like CASS to me...

Sounds like united might be trying to close a loophole you could use to avoid paying their 50 dollar or whatever it is non-rev fee... How friendly of them

Ok... I want to make sure I understand this. As a DAL pilot, if I try to jumpseat a Skywest UAX flight with seats open in the back, they won't let me on? Per TSA, if there are seats available in the cabin, I can't ride in the cockpit jumpseat and according to this memo I can't ride in the cabin either. Am I reading that correctly?

BINGO! That's how we are understanding it to be thus u would need to buy a zed fare. It effects those not associated with ual/uax. It's messed up.

whats the point of cass like a second check on denial. lol

Are you sure?

"Pilots requesting NRSA travel in the cabin on UAX flights operated by SkyWest must be electronically authorized"

CASS being the "electronic authorization" should be sufficient to get OAL pilots in the cabin.

To be honest I am not sure. We haven't had any other info and it's all been worst case speculation. Either way our jumpseat chair/president is looking into it.

Of course before we all get too wrapped around the axle on this, maybe the first thing we should do is contact our Jumpseat reps and get the real story.

The thread started out with, "...it looks like UAL is at it again."
Of course there was nothing in the memo that indicated that UAL had anything to do with it.

As for SkyWest, and their station agents, I'm here to tell you that they often get jumpseat issues wrong.


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Let's just wait and see what the real story is before everybody panics.

Hog

Business as normal folks, especially for you offline guys... SAPA states that this just has to do with flight attendants, so no pilot should be sweating anything.