Anybody work for Continental?

[Mad Dogg]

I was just hired by CommutAir. Does anyone know Continental's travel benifits?

 

[Cardinal]

1 800 324 PASS to list, since you probably don't have access to the coair.com intranet. That is a beautifuly designed site. Free passes after X years of service, minimal fee before that. Commutair might have a different deal in that department. Unlimited jumpseats. Employees ride as an SA3. Pass riders, immediate family and parents are SA4 unless they're with the employee, then they are SA3 as well. An allotment of buddy passes (SA4), one or two vacation passes per pass rider (SA3V, the top of the SA3 stack, even without the employee). Again, all this might be different for Commutair. Your mileage may vary.

 

[Mad Dogg]

thanks..., how did you like the 1900?

 

[NEDude]

Commutair employees do have access to Coair.com. Very easy to book your non-rev travel through.

Commutair people travel as SA5A. Behind just about everybody. Company insists we beat buddy passes but we don't, as mentioned they travel as SA4. The fare is $12.50 each way domestic - payroll deductable ($10 + a $2.50 security fee). Unlimited travel benefits on CAL, XJT and Commutair for self, dependents and parents after 90 days. Travel on Commutair is free and must be listed through the commutair - cannot be done through Coair.com.

ID90 and industry passes on just about every other airline out there for self, dependents and parents as well.

 

[RocketRob]

Buddy pass riders only travel at SA4P IF they are travelling with the employee's spouse, kids or parents...... otherwise they are SA5. Now if the employee travels with the buddy, then they are both SA3. Basically you all travel at the same level (together) at the highest level of the travellers.


Congrats on Commutair...... vote ALPA!

 

[Mad Dogg]

whats all this sa4, ect. stuff?

 

[RocketRob]

Sorry, Pass travel is broken down into classifications.. a whole lot of them. The ones you'll care about are PS (positive space) and SA (space available). You wont ever be PS unless your company is sending you to training etc. When I (an employee) travel I fly at SA3P96. The SA means personal travel, the 3 means employee (4 is my family and 5 is buddy pass) followed by P (personal travel or V for vacation) then my year of hire. So if your waiting to get on a flight, the PS's get on first the the SA3V's, then the SA3P's, then the SA4V's then P's, etc.

 

[TurboS7]

Without a scab from 84' you just might not have an airline or a job.

 

[AAflyer]

Turbo,

I will bite, what the he11 does that have to do with anything?

AAflyer

 

[RichardFitzwell]

Turbo,

I will bite, what the he11 does that have to do with anything?

AAflyer

AAflyer,

Most of the pilots that crossed Continental's picket line in '83 and '84 feel they saved CAL from going out of business. They try to justify their actions whenever they can.

It's twisted really. I think TurboS7 has crossed a line or two to get to the left seat of that B737-800 he flies.

The good thing is that most of them will be retired in the next 7 - 10 years.

 

[AAflyer]

Richard,

Thanks, I did not know. Still wondering why Turbo would bring it up on a thread relating to pass riding. Maybe he needs constantly rationalize to himself and others why he did what he did.

AAflyer

 

[TurboS7]

Sorry, Pass travel is broken down into classifications.. a whole lot of them. The ones you'll care about are PS (positive space) and SA (space available). You wont ever be PS unless your company is sending you to training etc. When I (an employee) travel I fly at SA3P96. The SA means personal travel, the 3 means employee (4 is my family and 5 is buddy pass) followed by P (personal travel or V for vacation) then my year of hire. So if your waiting to get on a flight, the PS's get on first the the SA3V's, then the SA3P's, then the SA4V's then P's, etc. Then within each category you have a seniority year, so my 96 beat's out a 2000 hire but not a scab from '84

Yes AAflyer what does being a scab have to do with passriding, please read the last six words of this quote. Point made.

 

[Boeingman]

Then within each category you have a seniority year, so my 96 beat's out a 2000 hire but not a scab from '84

Hey dumbass. You think the only scabs are 84 hires? Hmmm, how about 83 and 85 hires? The old CAL pilots who crossed? some feel (and rightly so), the New York Air pilots are scabs.

Honestly, I get sick and tired of hearing judgement passed on our pilots especially from outside the CAL list. Most of those who crossed are now very strong union members. You comments only serve the purpose to divide and split unity.

P.S. Before you insert your foot in your mouth again, my ALPA pin has a star on the top.

 

[FSB99]

Cardinal:

maybe i misread your post, but, regarding the unlimited jumpseats.. um.. no.. unlimited on xjet. on cal, though, jumpseaters limited to number of jumpseats installed on the aircraft.. even if the back is empty, if there's two jumpseaters, and only one jumpseat installed, someone's getting left behind.

 

[AAflyer]

Turbo,

I did not see the last sentence. Infact I went to re-read after I saw your post and still did not see it. The one thing I DO is to admit when I am wrong. Sorry.

AAflyer

P>S Boeingman, I understand your comments, many now at Eagle are calling AA pilots scabs because of the RJ issue. People really do misuse the word don't they.

 

[Boeingman]

Boy, read the post before you throw a fit! I'm just telling a new guy how to non-rev! I'm not trying to dive into the abyss of the who's a scab debate.

Then why bother with the devisive post with no purpose other than to whipsaw emotion? Or are you that foolish enough to think any pilot with an 84 hire date is a scab?

I'm not a believer of Saved Continental After Bankrupcy line of b.s.

Nor am I. But I am also firmly in the belief that ALPA national would of sacrificed old CAL us in a nanosecond.

nor am I trying to point out that OUR MEC (yes we are in the same MEC) is also a scab and now the head of CALALPA! I'm just using an example that a 84 hire boards before a 96 hire

Is "also" a scab? Head of CALALPA? Are you insane? Prater is a full term striker. Before you keep spewing your bull$hit you should check your facts.

so get off my ass! end of story

Boy you really are an ignorant one. Especially with the last post about the MEC. Always amazes about some loudmouth who was probably in grade school back during this fiasco is such a know it all about the events of 83.

P.S. 96 Express hire eh? One of the PFT children that daddy wrote a check for your job? Frankly, I view the PFT's like scabs. You both didn't earn your jobs.

 

[Boeingman]

P>S Boeingman, I understand your comments, many now at Eagle are calling AA pilots scabs because of the RJ issue. People really do misuse the word don't they.

No kidding. One of the Eagle pilots on here "Eaglefly" called me a scab because of my attitude about burying the past.

Of course he wasn't either man enough to apologize or admit his mistake when confronted with the truth.

Like I told the other guy, it never ceases to amaze me how some feel they know so much about an event they had nothing to do with.

Best of luck to you AA guys.

 

[mckpickle]

I agree with Boeing man. Whats done is done and Prater is no scab. Turbos7 IS a scab.

But is is ironic that the IACP was made up of scabs and so isn't the current IAH LEC icluding guys who like to sue their own union to a cost of (i think) 800 bucks per member!

 

[nimtz]

Without a scab from 84' you just might not have an airline or a job.

Oh shucks! Bless those brave souls who saw The Gallant Frankie as a True Visionary. Too bad your kind couldn't save Eastern like the blessed ones who saved CAL. So does that mean CAL scabs are better then you and all the others who tried elsewhere? Perhaps they are some sort of SUPER SCAB!

Boeingman, we've long since hashed out our differences over the scab issue, but Turbo likes to have his b*lls busted too much....

 

[mckpickle]

Ya he does. At least most CAL guys have paid a penance. Turbo is just proud of it.



Super Scab.....now thats funny?