Commuting for SWA,UPS, FEX

[slicknkat]

Just wondering if anyone could tell me the "pain" of commuting as a new hire if I were to live in PIT if I were lucky enough to get picked up by SWA, UPS or FEX?

 

[UPSer]

"IF" we were hiring, the commute itself for you between PIT and SDF should be relatively painless. We operate an A-300 that has five jumpseats available.

 

[Los1]

the commute from PIT to MEM would be relatively painless...

For the record I commute from EWR to ANC and it is very doable
Los1

 

[slicknkat]

Thanks
Just hoping UPS will start hiring within a year

"IF" we were hiring, the commute itself for you between PIT and SDF should be relatively painless. We operate an A-300 that has five jumpseats available.

 

[dually]

Jump Seat

How resceptive have PAX carriers been in giving jump
seat to freight pilots post 9/11 ?

 

[de727ups]

Not a problem

I haven't been refused a seat. Most guys could care less. A few want to know what's going on and I tell them what I know. At this point, UPS jumpseats are open to CASS approved carriers. So far, only UPS and American are on the list.

 

[PurpleTail]

I haven't been refused the J/S once either (kiss of death) and guys are very receptive when I ask for a ride. Most of the time pilots ask how to submit an app or how to get someone hired at FedEx.

Hopefully FedEx will have the jumpseat available to other airlines very soon. Letters from the union state that the company (NOT the pilots or union) is using offline jumpseating as a bargining chip in negiatations. Not cool.

I want to thank all the pilots out their flying for a pax carrier that continue to let their brothers and sisters at FedEx continue to offline j/s with you, we really really appreciate it.

 

[RVR300]

Commuting in general sucks.We have a "commuter policy" in our contract, so generally if you give yourself two flights to get to your base you're covered if there's a mx or wx or delay. It's recently been extended to unofficially include offline jumpseating.

As for CASS... a public forum is probably not the place to get into any kind of specifics and j/s procedures.

 

[mach none]

I haven't been refused a seat. Most guys could care less. A few want to know what's going on and I tell them what I know. At this point, UPS jumpseats are open to CASS approved carriers. So far, only UPS and American are on the list.

Alaska is up and running on the CASS. We are the first ALPA carrier. We also offer unlimited J/S.

 

[chase]

Southwest will be up with their CASS program NLT Feb '05. We have unlimited jumpseat agreements with several carriers due to the fact they reciprocate with us.

It is rumored Southwest Airlines & the Southwest Airlines Pilot Association are coordinating an agreement that will permit pilots commuting off line or on line to do the following:

If flights are cancelled, delayed or are full resulting in the inbound pilots being unable to commute on board, the pilot will notify scheduling as soon as possible & the pilot will not be docked pay nor reimbursed for the time it takes to catch up with the sequence. This should significantly reduce the amount of last minute sick calls that result because of the fear of repercussions for failing to make check-in.

If this is true it will be truly nice for the pilots & for the company. Less reserve folks being stuck with an entire 3 or 4 day trip while the "sick" pilot is paid at home using up sick leave that could be used for really being sick. If this does come to pass I will confirm it later but for now we'll hope it happens.

Most of our aircraft have 2 jumpseats so for those carriers who don't have multijump seat agreements with us, there are at least 2 jump seats available to those. It has been my experience most Capts are very flexible with allowing folks from other carriers to ride on Southwest....as always, attitude is everything when it comes to jumpseating....but everyone knows that already.