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Best travel benefits for a regional period.

I tried to copy/paste my travel history to give an example of costs and how often I got first, but its too complicated for me to get it to work.

isnt UAL now charging all their regional affiliates a fee to non rev?? Sounds like DELTA is the only place this can be avoided as a commuter airline.

Ill take being high up in the priority list here, over anything else.

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Yes, it's crappy we pay first 5 years. Nobody likes how offline can go free and our people don't.. BUT, it's still WELL worth it for the listing priority we get with the check in times being first come first serve, and D1 ability. I travel international a lot, and it's easy for me to always get #1 or #2 on the standby list and actually get on every flight with my registered companion, rather than being stranded in some foreign country because I was number 87 on standby behind some ramper's cousin and their 12 kids, like I see on UAL and Delta all the time.

Fee goes away after 5 years anyway.. and if you are in the cockpit it's always FREE. Asking for the cockpit jumpseat gets you around the fee if they are wiling to do it. Whenever I commuted before my 5 years was up, I just avoided Eagle/AA most of the time, unless I absolutely needed the priority to get on (like on a weather day), then I'd gladly pay the $10 over getting stranded overnight. Now after my 5 years is up, it's been fantastic. I don't pay for coach, my companion doesn't pay, my parents don't pay.. I always have the potential ability to get priority over a 30yr AA pilot "on their own airplane" if I am good with the system or they could do the same on my airplane as well. I have never ridden in anything other than Business or First on countless international AA flights due to the priority I can get. There is no better at any regional IMO. Changing it to the way others do it would be the dumbest thing ever.

People on the outside are just looking at it the wrong way.. yes a junior guy gets charged "a little". ($7-13) domestic.. but where else will a JUNIOR regional pilot have the ability to get TOP priority on the standby list, even over the mainline people?? It's a trade-off. Well worth it too IMO.. pay $10 and get on, or go free with some other system and wait around the airport all day/night because your listing priority sucks..

When you are standing at the gate for the last flight home of the day on AA in Tokyo and there is only 2 seats available and 19 standby's on the list, trust me, you will LOVE our system (if you actually planned ahead 24hrs). Plus, $10 non-rev fee to get home after a 4 day for a new-hire is still cheaper than buying a hotel room and losing a night off at home because you didn't have the priority to get on with some other system..

I commute to SJU from ORD sometimes, I don't care paying $20 for almost 5 hr flight.

well your the one out of one hundred who do.

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Originally Posted by buddies8 (Post 1388764)

well your the one out of one hundred who do.

I think he meant that he doesn't mind paying for the 5 hour flight. That's how I read it, anyway.

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Originally Posted by buddies8 (Post 1388764)

well your the one out of one hundred who do.

I think he meant that he doesn't mind paying for the 5 hour flight. That's how I read it, anyway.

This is what I meant. It is what it is...management won't change it because pilots and FAs are complaining about it.

I do like AA/AE system and its a fair game for all non-rev pax.

Last I saw a post over 2 months ago mentioned the iPad EFB. Any news on the status of them coming online? Also, how will the program work? Is every pilot issued a iPad or will they all have to buy their own? And I assume this incorporates most manuals and all the charts?

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Originally Posted by WARich (Post 1390071)

If it mimics the AA iPad EFB program, it contains Jeppesens and all company manuals which are obviously updated electronically. AA provided iPads and a big hyperjuice spare battery to each pilot. Still have to have a paper QRH. Charts and 10-1 pages remain paper, but I was told, that'll be fixed in a few months.

Trimming the kit bag down to a couple of pounds, and not having to do revisions ever again, = glorious. Even pink bulletins are electronically updated.

Had the Eagle assistant POI, who is in charge of approving our EFB program on my jumpseat this week. He said as long as those who are testing it don't have any problems in the next few months he will approve full use of the EFB by July.