I wouldn't call the flight benefits the worst in the industry. You will have lower priority then wholly owned regionals, but you will have more options because you will have benefits on multiple airlines. I haven't used the AA benefits yet but I hear they are terrible. From what I have heard, AA is going back to the Us Airways wings page which will make them a lot better. United and Delta always worked well for me.

 

The AA travel benefits has nothing to do with which system they use. It sucks worse than ever now because they oversell the hell out of every flight. They announced in June that employees would start being able to receive first class free of charge, and everyone was beyond excited. But they also began upgrading every passenger on board, so now you never see first class unless the plane is empty. I could get first class ten times easier when I had to pay for it. AA doesn't care a single bit about their employees, and it shows big time in the travel benefits. Whether it's the Wings page or NRTP, it's still sh1t now.

 

So you get flight benefits, with all three airlines (UA,DL,AA) as a Republic pilot? Because I've read that if you for example fly for the UA side. You only get UA, and AA. No DL.

 

You get flight benefits eligibility by base and airline supported. Then you pay to register for the benefit, and pay a small price to use it. So let's say your base supports United and AA. You would pay roughly $250 per year to register yourself to use the benefit for each company. Then if you register a significant other, you'd pay around the same to register them for each company. These numbers will all change in November (most likely increase/get worse). The flight benefits have definitely eroded here year-over-year.

Given that most/or many pilots don't live in an outstation, I've only non-rev'd on a Republic plane once in 10 years. I thus have to use my priority for mainline flights which is sometimes difficult even after 10 years.

As a side note there is no way to list for upgraded cabin (first/business) on AA for Republic people. I don't expect that to change in the near future, maybe in a few years we'll have it back again.

 

I non-rev internationally with AA all the time- commute. Typically I'll walk into the plane last and pay a courtesy thank you to the Captain. 98% of the time, if there is a business class or first class seat available, the Captain will call to Cabin Crew Chief (not sure if that's the title) and asks her/him to take me to any business class seat. Twice I was taken to the rest area (777-200) so I can use the rack. Summer season is over, lots of empty seats starting Tuesday. I'm a RAH pilot, but I do take my hats off to the AA pilots that've taken me on jump seats, business class seats etc, "No pilots left behind" indeed.


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Where do most RAH pilots go once they move on to the majors? Is there a trend, or just about everywhere?

 

Just about everywhere...seems to be a lot of Southwest lately.

 

All over, I've flown with guys and gals interviewing/hired at each of the big 3, JB, SW, Atlas, Spirit, UPS, and Alaska. Some FOs have moved on to many of those as well.