American Jumpseat

[Cobraair75drvr]

aa73,

What APA should do is publicly relay to all other pilot groups nationwide to do the same. No unlimited AA jumpseaters. When AA is forced to cancel flights this will change asap. This should not be something your neg. comm. should have to worry about, nor negotiate for. Let other pilot groups do the work for you.

 

[aa73]

Thanks cobra I will pass that on to our j/s committee.

 

[Flying-Corporal]

Yes, everyone loses when the jumpseat is used to make a political statement, but guys from MY company lose because as AA717 says, "we're stuck with our current arrangement". What possible reason does your company have to change it?

I'm in NO WAY saying I wouldn't take a plane load of AA pilots today, tomorrow, and forever regardless of how you answer the question, but the "geez I'd love to help but my management is stingy about that" doesn't help OAL guys get to work.

*AA, if this sounds personal, it's not. I just think it's kind of a raw deal for OAL guys.

I agree with get2flying. It sucked when the gate agent one day refused to list on an empty flight because there was already one jumpseater who had showed up before me.

Jumpseat is a reciprocal courtesy. How is that reciprocal when sometimes 3-4 AA pilots commute on us and when in similar circumstances they refuse to take more than 2???

I think we should change our computers so that only one of them could be listed. That's not vengeance, that's just fairness.

 

[SSDD]

Sometimes you have to cause a little pain for the greater good. A similar thing was happening at DL a few years back. They could sit in the actual jumpseat on our flights, but us lowly regianal pilots were being left at the gate. It was always the same excuse..."I'd like to take you, but the company...". So a group of senior pilots got together and said no mas.

We didn't weasel out of it. We explained to everone who got denied, why they were being denied. They didn't like it, of course, but they went to their MEC, and the MEC went to the company, and guess what? It took less than two weeks to fix the problem!

 

[SSDD]

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