Flight Bennies 101?

[CoffeeIcePapers]

I used my benefits to go Delta One to/from Europe a couple of times as a junior regional FO. You have to be flexible and be willing to shift days/destinations, but it can work. I was going to go to Japan in March 2020 (pre-covid) and watched the flight loads during the week to see when the best days and routes would be. I would have had Delta One there, as well.

With that said, I mainly used CC points or bought tickets to go on planned vacations.

 

[Screaming_Emu]

What do you mean by gateway?

Positive space commuting

 

[EIR]

And at Atlas it’s just gateway commutes and deadheads. Anything outside the US is business or better so you can get a pretty obscene amount of miles from that, at least before the end times…

I had my first intl. DH last month since this craziness happened. It was effing fantastic. I haven't paid for an airline ticket in 3 years, ACMI has quite a few perks.

 

[smack300]

Sometimes non reving is sweet. "Wanna go to Toyko tomorrow? Sure.." Other times, you're stuck in Singapore airport for 24hours because you thought you could do standby and end up buying a very expensive ticket once you realize the waterfall is only so cool for so many hours.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

My personal experience international? Don’t do US carriers. The nonrev game doesn’t seem as bad on foreign carriers. Whereas on US carriers, it’s everyone, their mother, grandmother, and dead great-grandmother trying to get on.

 

[JordanD]

If it wasn’t for being able to ride in the jumpseat I wouldn’t have even bothered trying to go anywhere the last 5 years. I can’t believe there’s FAs that make commuting work.

 

[azmedic]

Ever since my ex moved out of state with my kid I have to nonrev almost weekly to visit him. Doing it all the time and playing nonrev roulette out of necessity has sucked all the joy and excitement of going to “exotic” places out of it for me that when I’m not going back and forth from seeing him I completely avoid the nonrev game


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[ozziecat35]

When non revving works, it’s absolutely amazing. Lie flat business to London, beautiful. First class to Paris, bring it on. Oh, LHR-ORD canceled? Let’s just get to EWR in Polaris and we’ll go from there…easy peasy. Stuck in PHL because everything is oversold, end up doing PHL-CLT-MCO-PHX just to get home for work….less cool.

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

One thing to add: With Endeavor and Delta's commuting policy, you can get positive space to work from anywhere. So if you are stuck in Seoul or something, just leave the family behind and take your positive space to work. Just write off the divorce as a cost of doing business.

 

[Springer]

For example, all roads lead to and from Memphis (or wherever you are based), so any schedule DH comes from or to Memphis.

Wife was a MEM CSA for 18 yrs. She took really good care of the Purple guys.

 

[jose1337]

Depending on airline, they will also allow you to jumpseat on ZED if the back is full with your badge. Happened to me on SAA...

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Wife was a MEM CSA for 18 yrs. She took really good care of the Purple guys.