Sorry guys, I'd normally just try to get ahold of my jumpseat coordinator to ask this, but something came up and I'm looking for a quick answer.

Trying to go from LAS to YVR - does Air Canada and domestic carriers share a jumpseat agreement?

If so, does anyone have a # I can call to list?

Thanks a bunch for any help!

The short answer is yes, no CASS agreement, and from what I seen, they pretty much toe the line on you have to have a reciprocal agreement. I just listed at the gate. Good luck!

Yes. Cabin only. You gotta get to the crew. They will have a paper "jumpseat ticket" for you to fill out. Pretty much like the old school jumpseat forms that the US airlines used 10 or 12 years ago.

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I think this may be changing....but not sure.

I'm a CSA for a CASS airline (allegiant), and when listing pilots for jumpseat we have a drop-down list of all other CASS airlines authorized for cockpit jumpseat. Just recently (past couple weeks) Air Canada is now in that list, but doesn't seem to work just yet. I don't know what the deal is.

Anyway just something to ponder... Then again we also just use paper jumpseat tickets, so maybe we're just behind the times.

Call 800-413-1113, and pick the option so you can speak to someone, and tell him/her that you'd like to "jumpseat", and they'll put a special code on their gate computer. All that hoopla because the Captain needs to hand you a blank JS form to fill, and the Capt needs to put in a special code in that form, and the only way to get it is thru calling the 800 numbers above. Gate agents couldn't get it done for me, and I had to run back to the payphone, call AC and got it done in several minutes.

Other than that, JS on AC is just any other airline, you can sit in cockpit (upon Captain approval), or cabin. Hope it helped.

Too good a deal to last.

"We have been advised that starting April 1, Air Canada will charge all other airline jumpseaters a charge equal to the taxes and fees that are charged to Air Canada. These fees are strictly administrative, similar to those currently charged to employees (AIF and security fees only). "

No idea how much this is, and could vary airport to airport.

Ballpark numbers for the security fees:

Domestic, within Canada: $7 CDN
Transborder: $12
International: $25

This is a distinctly Canadian thing...you can't expect the airlines to eat these fees for tickets that they're not making any revenue on...

Thanks underwear bomber!!