Buddy pass? Why? A ZED fare is 10% cheaper and doesn't lock that person on the buddy list for a year or require all the personal information, which you couldn't do on short notice in the first place.

Are you suggesting the AA pilot buy the ZED?

Not all pilots have access to ZED fares on AA. ZED also has 3 levels of 'fees', low, medium, and high (correct me if I'm mistaken, please). So, even those pilots who have ZED access on AA are not all paying the same fees.

Naturally, the guys most likely to have 'low ZED' on AA already have unlimited, or at least domestic unlimited . . . just the way things shake out.

A ZED (at any price) may be a better option than watching an AA plane push without you, though.

That's right. I've known many commuters over the years who always carry a ZED ticket, just in case.

Is the AA Jump seat now available international. Example DFW-CUN.

I believe TSA now allows it?

AA guys do you know the answer?

porpilot,
The AA jumpseat is open to international to some airlines, but not all. Who do you work for?
FlyitB
I wish AMR felt the same way you do about the jumpseat! It is not worth getting fired, or worse, by allowing an unauthorized person to use the jumpseat travel priviledge.
Remember AA was among the last to open the jumpseat to their own pilots as well as other airlines. Change is very difficult for the AA culture, but progress is slowly being made.

No, my response was to the post that asked how many AA pilots had given a jumpseater a 'buddy pass'. I don't know how other non-rev systems work but it's pointless to ask an AA pilot to 'give' someone a buddy pass since it doesn't exist at AA.

The non-rev option that they could offer is more expensive than a ZED fare and not available on short notice, so the 'how many guys have you offered a buddy pass' POV is pointless.

How does AA (the management) decide what other airlines they will restrict and what airlines they won't? The way I understood it was if your airline let as many as they could take on then AA would to, or if your airline limited it the AA would to? If that's not the case then is there a list somewhere of who is limited and who isn't?