Non rev
 

Has the sign up for non rev changed?

No, but about a year and a half ago they stopped letting you list buddy passes for free, now you have to pay a $15 fee to ID90.

been $15 on id90 since i started at spirit, 10+ years. was only free if you did it at the airport

Not even close. Like you said the $15 id90 fee was there but until 2019 you could submit a paper form to the company via Email for buddy passes for completely free. But obviously they took that away.

But I certainly didn't do it so I must be making it up.

P.S. I did do it, many times.

as elmetal said, you could also do a paper form for free. You must’ve just never got the memo in your 10+ years…

I never heard or this paper form. And who uses buddy passes anyway. Tell those cheap skates to buy a ticket

Lol...facts. "Hey, let me send a piece of paper into our understaffed travel department to get you a space available standby ride so you can save $80 on a ticket. And if you dont make it on, you can call me and we can play the 'im stuck because of your airline and all the warning you gave to me about standby, I've forgotten', how does that sound?"

idk man. Some times tickets on Spirit are more than $80.

ive seen $300 before and it’s always good to score some “brownie points” with your buddies and you can use that as a “you owe me” for something else later on.

Get buddies who don’t need free Spirit tickets.

Problem solved

well…do you want to be my buddy?

Maybe. Do you like movies about gladiators?

Any tips on using the travel benefits ? Flying solo or with the family. Thanks.

If you’re solo you can Jumpseat on anyone. With the family my tip is to buy tickets

Yup. Ive non-reved 0 times in my time here. Our tickets are super cheap, buy the family seats, and list for the jump or buy you a seat as well, bags are free when buying confirmed tickets online.

The main issue is lack of frequency to locations. You try and non rev with the family and if you cant get everyone on, it might be a day before the next flight, maybe longer until the next open seat. Soon 99.9% of our planes will have 1 jumpseat. So even trying to get that single jump might be an issue if someone is faster on the 72 hour draw when listing.

My advice: buy seats, gets bags for free, travel in regular clothes, put your badge away (just buy your water), and enjoy your industry leading cramped seating.

Im new to 121, if there is a site where i can find this info LMK.

When you say "our tickets" do you mean we get a discount when buying confirmed tickets ? and if so, is that discount only with NK ?

No discount on our tickets but you get free bag. The purchased seats are on our planes. You can list Zed on another airline from our agreement list for a fee but it is standby.

I've had friends use buddy passes with great success. Spirit is notorious for having no shows. It's incredibly rare that we leave with every seat taken, unlike the legacies. Last week I worked a FLL-ATL that had 45 no shows. In February I got 2 friends on a flight from Florida to NY that was -5/182 and delayed an hour.

Some other good news: according to my friend at jetBlue, they plan to put second jumpseats and brake fans on all of our planes as part of the conversion.

is there any app or website where you can see the open seats per flight in NK ? i usually use the NK APP and see the seat map.

So basically the only benefit is the free bag unless you jump seat or paxs dont show up.

Our flight benefits overall suck. Zed fares used to be more plentiful, lost UAL about 8 years ago.

You’ll get the website info etc in indoc. First got to pass checkride, so yeah, there is that.

But as far as the benefits or pass travel, it’s one thing that I hope improves under JBLU because it’s basically a worthless benefit to most of us. Buy a ticket, it’s easier.

you and dependents can fly space available standby on any spirit flight free of charge except international departure tax. You and dependents can also fly space available standby on dozens of airlines around the world for a variable fee. We do not have agreements with delta, United, or American, but we do with most other airlines. “Space available standby” means you get a seat if there is space left on the plane, either because it’s not fully booked or because there’s no shows.

you and dependents can fly confirmed full fare with one free carry on and checked bag on spirit.

you (and only you) can jumpseat on any US or Canadian part 121 (or equivalent) carrier, including DL/UA/AA and FedEx/UPS/Atlas/Kalitta. If the flight is not full, or the flight is international, you will be given a seat in the cabin free of charge. If the flight is full and domestic, you will be awarded the cockpit jumpseat as long as nobody of higher priority shows up 15 minutes prior to departure. If the flight is full internationally, you ain’t going anywhere. Only airlines you can JS in the cockpit internationally are Spirit and the ACMI carriers.

you will be able to access spirit flight loads once you are hired at the company, but they’re not very useful. They change all the time and we get wildly varying amounts of no shows.

baseball3792 gave by far the best explanation.

Non-rev (called Staff Traveler outside US) with family takes planning. Also, your family has to be "trained", i.e. always carry-on only and be willing to endure discomfort if long flights/red-eyes/airport lay-overs etc

We average around 20 International flights (on these airlines included in our benefits: LH, SW, AF, SN, KL, IB, SAS, AC, EK, ET, AM, OS, AV, FI, KQ, LA, LO from a total of approx 80 airlines) per year, and after 20 years seldom had to use our back-up (always have a second flight, even if it goes to a city close to where you want to be). I use Staff Travel app to check loads on other airlines.

Enjoy

Does Spirit allow you to list in laws in lieu of parents as pass travelers?

You get Parents, Parents In Law or Step Parents, 2 total.

Thanks!

filler

Hey, all…question you may (or not) know the answer to.

I’m a pilot at not-Spirit. I occasionally non-rev on Spirit, and everyone is wonderful, by the way.

My question: If I purchase a ticket (for a commute; I’d be in uniform), would the gate agents charge me for my bag? Non-rev is no bag fee.

Just curious. Thanks, all.

I my experience: uniform, anything goes... But there is always a chance you bump into the wrong gate agent.

I will say most EU carriers have a 20lbs8Kg-ish weight limit on carry on. I commuted internationally for a while, and have gone back quite a few times since, and always make sure I pack REALLY light...
(VA, in uniform on NRSA would 100% take my roller and check it)

Yes, but only on NK flights (not myIDTravel)