Travel benefits for life after retirement
#11
New Hire
Joined APC: Apr 2017
Posts: 2
Retired travel
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.
#12
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2009
Posts: 1,820
**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?
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?
#13
Line Holder
Joined APC: Nov 2011
Position: L&R Seats
Posts: 92
age 51 and 18 years, age 52 and 16 years, 53 and 14, 54 and 12, 55 and 10 and finally 65 and 5
#14
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2015
Posts: 169
**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?
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?
#15
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2011
Position: A Nobody
Posts: 1,559
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.
#18
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2009
Posts: 1,820
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.
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.
#20
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?!
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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