Southwest jumpseat listing

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Does anyone know what's going on at SWA these days? I know they're busy flying those, you know, big jets, but I've been on hold for 83 minutes. The past month has been like this every time I've called.
 
List at the gate. I got them on the phone one time in the past month and that's it. One time I just left the phone on speaker while I drove to the airport and no dice.
 
Been scolded twice for doing that. Last time they told me their new system they're implementing will not even allow gate listings.
 
Luigi said:
Is there any airline that outright prohibits listing at the gate?
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AA requires an online listing if you want to jumpseat.

Never have issue doing that with United, US Airways, and at one point in time Southwest. Delta even does listing at the gate.
 
Most airlines will require online JS listing at some point in the future. Spirit, Frontier, American and JetBlue already have pretty good online listing tools.
 
z987k said:
Myidtravel is a pile of garbage. It takes forever to do from anything but a computer with a full keyboard and screen.
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Haha, I don't mind the website as much as I do remembering all the different passwords.
 
z987k said:
Myidtravel is a pile of garbage. It takes forever to do from anything but a computer with a full keyboard and screen.
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I don't imputing all the data....hell my phone autofills most of it in anyway, I just hate how tedious it is. Seems like listing for a flight requires you to navigate through like 5 or 6 pages. it seems to me it could be easily streamlined.
 
Will American agents work with you if you show up at the gate at all? Say you don't get on your primary flight on us air for example and you dash over to american to try to get a ride.
 
Ive been having the same issue, currently on my third hour of hold. I'm assuming the weather hasn't been kind recently which means plenty of people calling to re-book and alter travel plans.
 
airspeedalive said:
Will American agents work with you if you show up at the gate at all? Say you don't get on your primary flight on us air for example and you dash over to american to try to get a ride.
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About a year or so ago an AA gate agent at home, which is an outstation, listed me at the gate. Several weeks before that I was having some technical issues with myIDtravel not letting me list for flights and I asked a gate agent in ORD if she could list me. She INSISTED that there wasn't even a way in the their system to list jumpseaters.

That was a while ago and things may have changed completely and they really can't list at the gate anywhere. You can always ask, though I wouldn't expect a positive outcome.

It's a pain, but it is possible to get everything done in myIDtravel while on the run...i've done it a couple of times.

PS just remembered you mentioned US Air. Who knows...is their RES system even integrated with AA yet?
 
Somebody needs to come up with a website where pilots can list with any airline as a non-rev. Would save the airlines time, gate agents time, and make everything work much better. Being on hold with SWA is a pain. Gate agents are usually pretty good. I just feel bad for the Alaska gate agents as it's a 5 minute process, minimum, to list me as a non-rev. There is no way to do it in advance. This is 2015 people. And everyone but me has a smart phone. Lets get this done.
 
DE727UPS said:
Somebody needs to come up with a website where pilots can list with any airline as a non-rev. Would save the airlines time, gate agents time, and make everything work much better. Being on hold with SWA is a pain. Gate agents are usually pretty good. I just feel bad for the Alaska gate agents as it's a 5 minute process, minimum, to list me as a non-rev. There is no way to do it in advance. This is 2015 people. And everyone but me has a smart phone. Lets get this done.
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Awesome idea...agree 100%
 
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