After reading all this information on non reving it seems as if it is next to impossible on United especially if it is including your family..

Are discounted guaranteed tickets an option so you don't have to be on standby and actually get onto the plane?

 

The only way to make United non-rev 'benefits' work is if you don't care where you go.

Case in point. My wife and I wanted to go to Hong Kong on UAL. Flight was wide open at 3 hours to departure, with more than 40 seats avail. At 1 hr to departure, all of a sudden 45 United vacation passes appeared out of thin air.

So we walked over to the Honolulu gate, only to have the exact same thing happen. I swear, there's something about mainline UAL employees that makes them wait until the very last second to list for a flight.

We almost gave up, but there was 1 seat left to Kona, HI. My wife got that. I got the jumpseat.

Coming back to the mainland was a whole other adventure that made me rue the day I ever decided to try non-reving on United.

So like I said, if you don't care where or when you go, United nonrev can work.

If you care where or when you go? Save yourself the heartache and get a job that pays an actual living wage so you can afford an actual ticket to go where you want, when you want....

 

They're d***s. No joke. I'm not sure if they think this form of "non-rev sniping" somehow gets them a better chance at getting on or what. However, it seriously screws everyone else. Same scenario happened to us trying to go ORD-YVR.

 

Like you've been here for years.

SkyWest has done a lot to keep our pilot's priority on our aircraft. Ask a TSA or GoJet pilot what their priority is on their own aircraft with a UA pilot listed.

I'm not saying it doesn't suck. I'm saying you haven't been here long enough to call any department at SkyWest pathetic.





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Well I would say that PBS is pathetic as there is no logic to it whatsoever. Somehow as my bid stayed relatively the same I got 2 standups straight into a 4 day this coming month.. Ughhh 6 days on? awesome.

The answer on the PBS helpline.. Well its all very logical. My response, well its not logical if it keeps on changing with the same inputted variables.

 

 

If you work for Delta mainline you can buy positive space at a discounted rate. One more reason to work for the company that has the BIG name on the plane.

United will sometimes work with 1 or 2 people, but as others have stated here, flights always fill up and United loves to buy people off with vouchers. But you will find it more difficult to get days off to travel vs getting on a plane. My travel benefits are mostly used to have my spouse and kids join me on long overnights. You have to get creative with family time when SW only wants to fly 4 days. But a bulk of our non-rev travel is on Delta.

 

You can do the same with UAL, even as an express employee.


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Thanks for the heads up. I had no idea we could do this. Just did a couple searches but ticket cost isn't that bad. Especially if you really need to be there.

On another note, the DVR is out. I thought we were going into the holding pattern if we voted NO? Another month of 0 CRJ upgrades and only 12 on the E175?? So much for that 30 per month on each aircraft that was promised before the vote.

 

Are you saying Skywest employees can use the 20% discount on full fare tickets? If you are that is not true, it is not available to Skywest employees.