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surreal1221
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Gotcha. After the recent changes I no longer use the United benefits (albeit, I still Jumpseat on Company ERJs when necessary - mainline United guys love that).
I'll let someone who has older children respond though regarding any top our age for children/dependents.
Sorry I can't be more helpful.
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I'll let someone who has older children respond though regarding any top our age for children/dependents.
Sorry I can't be more helpful.
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Zidac
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No Delta benefits for ERJ side
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
Are United benefits that bad? I ask because I know several people at OO. And they either switched from the DL side, and lamented the tragedy of no longer having DL travel benefits. Or they left the UA side, and exclaimed that they now have DL bennies.
Zidac
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Other than personally finding Delta to be an overall better experience, I wouldn't know how the benefits compare. I don't start at XJT until this summer.
Off the top of my head: low boarding priority, distance based premium cabin segment fees for all, limit of one designated companion (if also designating a spouse/domestic partner) at $200 enrollment fee, segment fees for any travel done by that designated companion, no buddy passes, etc. I guess if you can deal with the uncertainty of low priority, and are fine with coach, they're not the worst.
I'm unaffected by the segment fees, so I don't have an exact figure, but my understanding is that they are distance based similar to the way that premium cabin fees are. As for buddy passes, that's a sore spot for guys that have been at XJT awhile, but they were pulled a couple years ago.
The premium cabin fees are based on a zed medium fare. And the segment fees are $25 a leg domestic, $50 international.
surreal1221
Well-Known Member
However, you do get a United Pathway Program by flying ERJs.
Pros and Cons...Pros and Cons.
Pros and Cons...Pros and Cons.
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
Courtney the online answer person for XJT's FB page, states that XJT pilots on the ASA side and IAD pilots on the CRJ-200 have been hired at United too.
surreal1221
Well-Known Member
Of course they have...Duh!
Pilots from a whole handful of other organizations have been hired by United.
In my dealings with CM she is a smart and intelligent young woman, however she - as is the case with a lot of people within our HQ - is severely disconnected from the pulse of the average line pilot on the CRJ side of the operation.
She does a fine job crafting internal and external communication messages. That's her job. Buy into it as you wish. But, buyer beware.
Pilots from a whole handful of other organizations have been hired by United.
In my dealings with CM she is a smart and intelligent young woman, however she - as is the case with a lot of people within our HQ - is severely disconnected from the pulse of the average line pilot on the CRJ side of the operation.
She does a fine job crafting internal and external communication messages. That's her job. Buy into it as you wish. But, buyer beware.
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
I took it as they indirectly benefited from United's preferential hiring of XJT/ERJ pilots. Even before it became an official pipeline, simply due to association.
Do you guys also have commuter hotels in the new contract too?
surreal1221
Well-Known Member
No.
