Of course not. That would be just plain stupid. I think everyone needs to just settle down and see what comes from these “talks”. The jumpseat is sacred and should be treated as such by all.


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You don't own our jumpseat. Seats in the cabin, sure. But behind that cockpit door, your company doesn't matter unless our rules say it does. And we've given your company every opportunity to retain your company "mattering" by asking for you to hold up your end of reciprocity. For whatever reason, they won't (or haven't up to the present).

If you want to redefine "jumpseat war" to suit your needs, by all means. But it's not us that's starting it. We're not denying you the jumpseat. We're giving you the same deal you give us.

I'm of the opinion that if you are absolutely prohibited from listing as a D6 at the gate (not that your gate agents don't want to do so, but that you are prevented from doing so like you are online), then we are no longer seeking something reciprocal, and should therefore find another solution to this. If this turns out to be the case (which I don't believe it is), I will do my part to try to seek a different solution on our end on behalf of your pilot group.

 

Oh please. There hasn’t been any scope concessions in a while. The last round of them were after 9/11 and before that the rj threat wasn’t totally known.

But yea i did buy a new boat this year so you at least got that right.

 

Gate agents have a list of airlines that are eligible for D6 listing. AA is not one of them.

 

Fixed it for you. Next time a republic manager decides to cancel a flight I’ll deny a republic jumpseater or at least give it to a UAL guy. That makes a lot of sense, right?

 

You're either being willfully obtuse or not understanding the situation.

We currently don't get priority over OAL on your metal. Now, you don't get priority over OAL on our metal. It's really that simple. We're not punishing you any more than you're not punishing us. We're not denying an AA guy the jumpseat. If you get there first, awesome, we're glad to have you.

 

Dude. It’s the way your people are going about this. It’s insane to take hostages.

If this goes through I can’t wait to see what happens after the first incident where an oal gets the jump over an AA pilot on an AA branded flight.

I know what’s going to happen. But is sure is going to be entertaining.

 

We are not taking hostages! That's what you guys can't seem to understand. Your priority is being lowered to the same priority you give us. That's not hostage-taking. Hostage-taking would be denying you the jumpseat on our flights, something we have absolutely zero desire to do.

The fact you think y'all are entitled to our jumpseat on planes we own without reciprocity is the worst part of the mainline guys' reactions to this.

 

You may own the airplanes, but you don't own the flying. Big difference.

 

The jumpseat is ours. Seats in back, AAGs.


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