How long till Coair & United Intranet become one?

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Number30FTO

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Seems like United is a little more generous to us commuter folks. It'd be nice to have a designated companion and buddy passes on the Continental routes.
 
Well as of yesterday, UA/CO employees can list on eachother. However, it hasn't been extended to COEX and UAX employees yet. Hopefully it'll be up for us soon, but no word yet.
 
I can't wait for the Jumpseat lists to get merged.

I'd wager there are going to just keep one computer system. I am not sure what CO uses but it has to be better than UNIMATIC
 
Bandit_Driver said:
I'd wager there are going to just keep one computer system. I am not sure what CO uses but it has to be better than UNIMATIC
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Actually CO uses something that's pretty old, like UNIMATIC. United dumped UNIMATIC years ago and has FASTAIR which is awesome! No typing in codes, everything is right there at your fingertips, no need to really memorize anything. I'd be shocked if we dumped that for CO's program. The CO agents would be jumping for joy if they got FASTAIR.
 
CO has the worst software ever to list jumpseaters. You ask for the jumpseat, and 1 1/2 days later they might be successful in entering you in the system. I exaggerate somewhat, but I commute from a CO hub so trust me when I say it blows compared to United's software!
 
The continental intranet and employee travel website, employeeRes, is great. Just like what the pax use to buy a ticket.

I've seen the United Nonrev listing system and it's way behind.


As far as gate software, they don't use SONIC anymore- that was the old green screen interface. There is a web app for listing jumpseaters at the gate.

All in all I think it works well, don't understand why others think it is so antiquated.
 
I think the problem with CrewTrac was our implementation of it, not the software itself.

What's Acey use?
 
U want to go back to waiting on hold for hours with C.S. to trip trade during the improvement windows?

And PMRs for a 2,600 pilot group?
 
ChasenSFO said:
Actually CO uses something that's pretty old, like UNIMATIC. United dumped UNIMATIC years ago and has FASTAIR which is awesome! No typing in codes, everything is right there at your fingertips, no need to really memorize anything. I'd be shocked if we dumped that for CO's program. The CO agents would be jumping for joy if they got FASTAIR.
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I was at DENTK as getting the door codes out of the system was PITA...Could have swore it was UNIMATIC I was using in the sym building. Could be wrong but it was old either way.

Hope the change over goes smooth...New systems is always hell for the agents and IT
 
Continental has my ID in CASS but in red letters it says "not authorized for JS." Other airlines there is no problem. Granted I just finished IOE last month but I dont think the problem is on my company's end (Colgan). Any ideas?
 
Louie,

I am the Jumpseat Coordinator for my company. Please PM me your two letter ID and your employee number and I will check it. Each company is different as to when they allow you to jumpseat and access pass travel.

each airline does have the ability to restrict pilots they allow in their jumpseat. e.g. if pilot xyz abuses jumpseat priivelege then airline X could either block that one pilot or ban his entire carrier from jumpseating on them.

I don't think it is a system error because CASS either issues APPROVED or DENIED responses. It sounds like the CO system is adding the cannot JS to the screen.

Again PM and I can offer more advice and I am friends with CO jumpseat comittee as well as Colgans.
 
Coair now says:
"Eligible CO Connection employees wishing to add a Travel Companion to their JA should contact their own Pass Bureau for instructions."

Has anyone done it yet? Seems like our Colgan pass travel department works kind of slow. I e-mailed them but don't expect a quick response.
 
Bandit_Driver said:
I was at DENTK as getting the door codes out of the system was PITA...Could have swore it was UNIMATIC I was using in the sym building. Could be wrong but it was old either way.

Hope the change over goes smooth...New systems is always hell for the agents and IT
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You probably did see them using UNIMATIC. You can still pull up UNIMATIC on UAs computers, even though they default to the new program FASTAIR. Of course the young people like me look at UNIMATIC as "Why the hell would you use that outdated thing?". But seeing as most of United's agents have been with the company since well before 9/11(most others were furloughed), they used the old program for years and prefer it since they memorized the thousands of codes you need to type in for it. But the modern and efficient one is there if you want it.
 
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