Question about Delta travel bennies

[Hootie]

I don't know whether to applaud this attitude or not. It does seem rather short sighted though. While I'm sure it makes a person feel good knowing that they're "sticking it to the Man," in the end it will only hurt their company's performance figures, allowing the mainline carrier to kick their company to the curb for contract failures.

I guess it's one way of reducing the subcontract lift providers.

my first cfi was a NWA 747 skipper and once told me how back in the 80's, management started charging the pilots a quarter or something for every coke they drank, so as he tells me, I guess everytime a pilot had a soda they would run the power up to max cruise or whatever for five to ten minutes. They stopped charging for sodas a few weeks later he said.

 

[E_Dawg]

Well as for me and my wife delta bennies are pretty sweet. Cough up 211 bucks and basically fly for free all over the world. I've heard it works this way for kids too, not sure about parents.

As far as I can tell for the dates I'm looking at for my aunt it's $500 to get raped on strandby or $1000 for an actual ticket, mci-paris and back. She ain't hurtin for money so I'm sure she will just buy the actual ticket. I was just tryin to be cool guy and help out with my benefits.....except they aren't really benefits, but more like punishments.

Sometimes I think they're better called "enemy passes".

 

[Cptnchia]

my first cfi was a NWA 747 skipper and once told me how back in the 80's, management started charging the pilots a quarter or something for every coke they drank, so as he tells me, I guess everytime a pilot had a soda they would run the power up to max cruise or whatever for five to ten minutes. They stopped charging for sodas a few weeks later he said.

He was right. That works for the Legacy pilots. They can't replace us. They can however replace the regional lift if they get too expensive.

 

[saxman]

A buddy pass is allowed to sit in first class if its available. Going international is i think worth it. As long as loads are ok Biz Class is usually open, and they can sit up there for the $400-500. People that pay to sit up there probably paid several thousand, so for international, I think a buddy pass ain't so bad.