Airline Benefits

Oh, snap.

I guess these guys need to rethink their marketing:

"As a paid Academy Flight Instructor, you and your family will receive FREE FLIGHT BENEFITS on XXXXXXX... Worldwide. Anytime. Anywhere. Enjoy Unmatched Benefits, Exciting Lifestyle Like No Other. Unlimited Flight Benefits. Worldwide. Anytime. Anywhere. Enjoy a high paying career doing what some only dream about."
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See the rest here.

I guess that anytime doesn't apply to me as I've got recurrent this month, all of the flights are full and there's nowhere to sit in the terminal because everyone's pals are trying to fly S-4 and sleeping on all of the chairs in the terminal in a makeshift terminal C "shanty town".

So much for 'unmatched' benefits... More like 'unavailable' benefits! ;)

Friends don't let friends S-4.
 
From my commuting experience in the past two months I'd have to say non-reving would be more of a hassle than the money saved from using the "benefits". I am now intimately familiar with the Embraer 170 jumpseat.
 
What good are "flight privileges" if the seats are being sold so cheap. You can't get on the flight anyway. S-4's buddy passes are even a bigger joke.

Remember flight passes are a "privilege" not a benefit. I was told that by a pass bureau rep at Delta and then I quoted from the manual I got when I got hired that called them a benefit. She laughed and said that you dont work for that airline anymore. Never a more true statement.
 
Our benefits for offline travel have never been as good as on the pax side, so I haven't bothered with non-rev for a long time. Just doesn't make sense when you consider the hassle factor. With many friends at the pax carriers now just buying tickets also due to all of the listed reasons in this thread, the advantage of freight flying just gets bigger.
 
Seagull, quick question...

Does Fedex only take CASS approved guys for the jump seat or is that only for planes that don't have cabin seats in them?
 
BobDDuck said:
I don't know where you are trying to go in the Airways system, but almost every place I try to go I end up in a jump seat. The major routes are open for the most part but try getting to a second tier city. Dayton has 5 flights a day to Charlotte. 3 70 seaters and 2 50 seaters. I'm trying to come back from Charlotte on the 8th of this month and there are 3 seats open between all 5 flights.
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I see where you are coming from - what boggles my mind is why US Air is flying around CRJ's with 50 people booked on them when an old 737 will cost less even with those 50 people (as doug mentioned). Hopefully Airways will expand its 190 service to service the markets that are bursting with CRJ's.

When I first got down here the flights to CLT/PHL/DCA had 8-15 people on them - now they seem to have triple that.
 
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