Or, keep on honoring seniority as we have for years and as your longevity builds, you’ll have a better shot at getting on.

I list every time I use the Jumpseat and expect everyone else to as well. What your missing here is that this system basically takes the Captain out of the loop as he has to take whoever reserved it. That ain’t gonna cut muster around here as we fought long and hard to make him or her the final authority as to who gets to sit up front.

Having seen the Cal way and the current way. The current way sucks. There needs to be a cutoff. If you are senior and show up as the door is closing im not changing the person already in the seat. You are messing up my flow. Sorry take the next one or show up earlier.

In the current method the CA has final say.

Sounds like you already know what to do.

I don't know which Delta guys you've been talking to but the person who reserved the JS has until D-15 to check-in. After that the JS is free to be reserved by anyone else. There should be no reason for the JS to go out empty.

Yeah, don’t think I’m going to bank on that and show up hoping the guy doesn’t make it a D-15. If it’s reserved guys aren’t going to show up hoping the reserver doesn’t make it.

Our system is just fine and gives the Captain full control of the seat.

What usually happens is you try to check in and the gate agent says, sorry it’s reserved already. So you give up and try your plan B, because quite honestly you have no idea if that jumpseat is open or not and you might as well get to the next gate early.

I have lived in base for 19 years and I stopped Jump seating and/or non revving over a decade ago. If I need to go somewhere I buy tickets. 85% of my airline stress is/was eliminated by those two items. Try it.

What about a hybrid of the two that honors seniority up to 24h prior and then becomes FCFS if no one has reserved it? Still not perfect but closer perhaps?

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Is that “Tool Of The Day” thread still a thing?

Just asking.

So I take a new hire headed to reserve assignment over you going on a fishing trip... you’ll respect Captains authority?

I did. Compute a career of state income tax, property tax, cost of living in any of our bases, and then Google “opportunity cost.” There’s a reason Denver and Houston are running so senior, and the others have a full blown population exodus going on.

https://whyy.org/articles/could-one-...-state-budget/