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Old 06-10-2019, 07:31 PM
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Been retired 6 years after 35 years, my space available travel seniority keeps adjusting down from a 1978 new hire to now a 1984 seniority ( 6 year adjustment)..... still riding in back all over the world mainly in the “nice “ seats.
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Old 06-11-2019, 01:49 AM
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Originally Posted by oldmako View Post
**As I understand it**, it's even worse for retirees. Once retired, you no longer carry DOH for SA travel. At age 65 and a day, you get a swift kick in the nuts and your years of service disappear like hot young titty tequila shots at a bachelor party. You're now lower than the UA Express bag smasher hired last week.

Pay me more now. I'll save up for a nice used 40-foot diesel pusher motor home. Nat Parks, here I come. Or a nice ketch or trawler. I'll buy FC tickets for trips to Hawaii and EU.

Google the number of ATP's in the US. Then, Docs, Attys, etc. SA travel? AYFKM?
Should a retiree with thirty years go in front of an active employee with thirty one?
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Old 06-11-2019, 02:56 AM
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Originally Posted by taosky View Post
Hi!

Does United Airlines offer travel benefits for life after retirement (family as well?)? If so, what are the conditions to get that?
Also, what is the list of travel airline partner we have access?
Starts with age 45-50 with 20 years active service, then on a sliding scale goes down by age and years of service (see below). That gives you fee waived coach and first with service fee. 25 years active gives you both coach and first with no fee.

age 51 and 18 years, age 52 and 16 years, 53 and 14, 54 and 12, 55 and 10 and finally 65 and 5
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Old 06-11-2019, 03:51 AM
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Originally Posted by oldmako View Post
**As I understand it**, it's even worse for retirees. Once retired, you no longer carry DOH for SA travel. At age 65 and a day, you get a swift kick in the nuts and your years of service disappear like hot young titty tequila shots at a bachelor party. You're now lower than the UA Express bag smasher hired last week.

Pay me more now. I'll save up for a nice used 40-foot diesel pusher motor home. Nat Parks, here I come. Or a nice ketch or trawler. I'll buy FC tickets for trips to Hawaii and EU.

Google the number of ATP's in the US. Then, Docs, Attys, etc. SA travel? AYFKM?
Your board year gets adjusted to keep your years of service the same. So if you retire a 25 year employee, you’ll always be a 25-year employee. If the date didn’t change after retiring, someone who was hired in 1980 and worked ten years would go ahead of someone hired in 1982 and put in 20.
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Old 06-11-2019, 04:32 AM
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Originally Posted by JoePatroni View Post
Should a retiree with thirty years go in front of an active employee with thirty one?
At LUAL the answer was yes, but when we merged a new attitude about pass travel cane with it and the answer became no.

Pass travel priority for retirees was the only real gift given to people for their decades of service to UAL, but it seems a more ego centered view took over. These days it’s “so long don’t let the door hit you in the rear,” when one completes his or her final day.

The good news is pass travel for anyone these days is basically impossible or at best extremely difficult. So the other old saying, “what goes around comes around,” with all its karma has come true.

Let’s just kick grandpa and grandma in the rear, they really don’t need to travel free anyway.

Stupid thread.
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Old 06-11-2019, 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted by JoePatroni View Post
Should a retiree with thirty years go in front of an active employee with thirty one?
No.

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Old 06-11-2019, 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted by oldmako View Post
No.

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I agree completely.
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Old 06-11-2019, 06:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Regularguy View Post
At LUAL the answer was yes, but when we merged a new attitude about pass travel cane with it and the answer became no.

Pass travel priority for retirees was the only real gift given to people for their decades of service to UAL, but it seems a more ego centered view took over. These days it’s “so long don’t let the door hit you in the rear,” when one completes his or her final day.

The good news is pass travel for anyone these days is basically impossible or at best extremely difficult. So the other old saying, “what goes around comes around,” with all its karma has come true.

Let’s just kick grandpa and grandma in the rear, they really don’t need to travel free anyway.

Stupid thread.
So it’s “ego centered” if I spend more years working here than you do? I don’t agree with giving retirees a lower boarding priority but have no problem with adjusting their DOH to reflect their actual years of service.
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Old 06-11-2019, 08:26 AM
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Did someone mention tequila?
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Old 06-11-2019, 08:43 AM
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So let me get this right....

You spend 30 years in the airlines, working your way up, all the crap that comes with it. In the end you manage to save money, stash a nice retirement, have some property, and now you are ready to enjoy the remaining "good" years of life...time to enjoy what you worked for...

And you then spend your time listing non rev in retirement, checking flight loads, wondering if cookies will maybe get you a better seat, wondering if the earlier flight will be delayed and revenue pax rolled into your flight, worried will there be 2 seats for you and your wife....

IF there was ever a time to buy your tickets, even first class, and for once literally and figuratively "sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight," it better darn well be in retirement. What the heck are we all working and grinding for if we want to non rev to be our method of travel in retirement?!
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