Airlines that give JS priority to mainline b4 regionals

[relief tube]

Well at good old UAL, unless your Go....jet, I believe it's first come first served. Even though as of today some ORD gate agents think otherwise-And then the drama ensues as you have to go out to the plane and tell the guy sorry.

Just curious what airline gives mainline priority on all of its paint-scheme?

 

[BLing]

I used to run into this problem from time to time in ORD. I think the United computer system makes its own rules and puts mainline at the top of this list on Express flights. The mainline gate agents arent very much help in this situation... I never had an issue getting on once the captain of the flight got involved.

I dont know what the official rule is in this one??? But in my experience, all the CA's of the United Express operators would put United Express pilots from other companies ahead of a mainline guy regardless who listed first. I never did see anything official on that. I guess that the captain has the final authority...

 

[Kenny]

When ZW was flying for UAL, mainline guys were in the JS ahead of other Express Carriers. Although, our guys were always in the JS first, if there was a mainline guy.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

I was in ORD, had a UAL pilot going on vacation, also had a Messa guy trying to go home after a 5 day cornhole fest. The Messa guy checked in first. The UAL guy was genuinely pissed when I explained that the Messa guy was going home and he could take the next flight. First come first served.
PBR

 

[EMB170Pilot]

Way I look at it is:

A.
My fellow RAH brothers and sisters ride 1st

B.
Other companies:
They have to pay me who rides up front

I charge double for airtran since Im trying to get my money back

<sarcasm on part B>

 

[EMB170Pilot]

I was in ORD, had a UAL pilot going on vacation, also had a Messa guy trying to go home after a 5 day cornhole fest. The Messa guy checked in first. The UAL guy was genuinely pissed when I explained that the Messa guy was going home and he could take the next flight. First come first served.
PBR

same thing happened to me not too long ago.

"Some" of these United mainline commuters are stupid. I guess its not tough to get a job at United

 

[siucavflight]

At Eagle and AA, AA guys ride before AE on AA airplanes. At Eagle, Eagle guys ride before AA guys on Eagle aircraft.

 

[Caspian27]

If I am commuting on OO, or other express I always list for the flight. Reason being, UAL computers are programmed to give UAL pilots the priority for the jumpseat. The workaround is that the UAL computers will give regular OO employees priority over other airlines including mainline UAL on OO aircraft. I assume it would work the same with other UAX airlines. If the flight is supposed to be full, I will tell the gate agent that I am eligible for the JS if I need to sit in it. If there's further problems, I'll ask to speak with the captain.

ORD can be challenging, since the gate agents are mainline and don't understand or care. But in DEN, LAX, SFO the agents understand the limitations and I haven't had problems there.

 

[BUDDHA145]

GO JETS GUYS AWAYS IN FRONT OF EVERY ONE!!!!

EVEN MY OWN BROTHERS...B-ches

 

[purduej]

I've always seen OO guys first, UAX second, UAL third, order of checkin last.

 

[CheeseDick]

Most places it's your company guys, then UA & UEX carriers first come first serve.

I don't know how it works at SKYW though, if it'd be Skyw guys, then ASA guys, then UA & UEX carriers.

 

[pilot772]

Not sure how it is now as I am not at the airlines anymore, but had this exact issue about a year ago in IAD. Shuttle America guy checked n first and introduced himself to me. At the last minute a 777 CA strolls up and says he has the jump, being a real jerk to the other guy and gate agent. As a commuter, I knew there was some scuttlebutt about ual taking priority on uax flights unless someone from the operating airline shows up. at the time I believe that OO, S5, went along with this. YV, AX, and G7 had not agreed to this new policy. i called our chief pilot, our jump-seat coordinator, and pulled my GOM(had to blow the dust off of it.) Both the chief and the jump coordinator agreed with the GOM "first come first serve, if it wasn't a mesa guy" So i went to explain this to the 777 captain, and he went ballistic. Dropping F-bombs at me and the gate agent. I even showed him where our GOM stated it plain as day. his response was priceless he said,"well that doesn't make it right and i demand the jump-seat" this all happened in front of several passengers. I responded very politely with, "would you do something in your 777 even if your GOM and Chief pilot specifically said no." he mumbled something and kept chewing me out for not taking him. finally, he walked off in a huge hurry.

it was the most unprofessional behavior i have ever seen.

anyway Short story long, as of November the jump-seat priority was own carriers pilots, UAL, other UAX, other airlines. (for OO, S5, and RP) and first come first serve for the other UAX carriers after their own of course.

now this may have changed recently so I am not sure.:cartman:

 

[WalterSobchak]

Been spending spare time playing around in Apollo and I found the boarding priorities for each of the UAX carriers. Each different carrier has their own priority scheme.

I'm not positive about this (I've never worked in CS for a UA/UAX carrier), but I believe the priority sorting has to be done manually by the agent. Therefore, it is possible they may be sorting them incorrectly. They can look at S*UAL/UAX-OMC in Apollo to view proper priority for each UAX carrier and the procedures to follow. That said, I wouldn't go accusing a gate agent that they don't know how to do their job...that's a quick way to the bottom of any list.

If I read correctly, pilot772 is almost right. At the moment, there is essentially, there are 2 sets of UAX OMC priorities. AX, G7, RP/S5 go by company pilot/dispatcher, UA pilot by time of check-in, UAX pilot by time of check-in, all other OA by time of check-in.

It would appear that OO and YV mix in the UAL/UAX Pilots together by time of check-in...

SkyWest is as follows:

-SKYWEST PILOT BY SENIORITY
-SKYWEST DISPATCHER BY SENIORITY
-ASA PILOT BY SENIORITY
-UAL/UAX PARTNERS BY TIME OF CHECK-IN
-ALL OTHER

Also, on OO...ASA Dispatchers fall in behind OAL pilots and before other airline DXers (if we had our way, ASA DXers would fall in before OAL pilots ).

Hope this helps, feel free to PM me with questions.