Continental International jumpseat

[ThreeGreens]

Hi,

What is the procedure for international jumpseating on Continental ?
How early do you checkin ? Can you checkin at the gate (i'll be flying from somewhere else)? How do you list yourself ?

Thanks for your help.

 

[SkeWest]

On international flights, OAL pilots still use "domestic procedures," ie, they are not able to list with CAL reservations system, so they just show up at the gate. There is no min time prior due to having to use an open seat in the back. No cockpit access. I personally would show up early in order to try to meet the crew if at all possible. I've seen situations before where the foreign gate agents didn't understand the process. By the way, it is also my experience that a lot of pilots aren't on top of the intl jumpseat rules as we don't get many OAL jumpseaters overseas. I have taken the above info from our latest policy that was published in our LEC times dated May/June 2007. Hope that helps. Good luck.

 

[ThreeGreens]

On international flights, OAL pilots still use "domestic procedures," ie, they are not able to list with CAL reservations system, so they just show up at the gate. There is no min time prior due to having to use an open seat in the back. No cockpit access. I personally would show up early in order to try to meet the crew if at all possible. I've seen situations before where the foreign gate agents didn't understand the process. By the way, it is also my experience that a lot of pilots aren't on top of the intl jumpseat rules as we don't get many OAL jumpseaters overseas. I have taken the above info from our latest policy that was published in our LEC times dated May/June 2007. Hope that helps. Good luck.

Perfect. Thank you so much for your help.

 

[EWR_FO]

Perfect. Thank you so much for your help.

If you are trying to jumpseat out of an international station, I would highly recommend showing up at least two hours prior and initially following the routine of a normal passenger. Many stations require a boarding pass to get through security and they wiil only give you one after initially processing you at the normal check-in desk. They will also collect any departure taxes at this time.

It's better to be early than get shut out because the agents have already closed the check-in desk.

 

[Guam360]

say, that I am trying to get on IAH-NRT. is there an issue with the IRO?
You know, does there have to be equivalant open seats in the back as in the cockpit regarding JSeats?

Since the IRO occupyies the JS on takeoff, theoretically(sp), I couldn't go at all, is this the situation?

thanks alot guys.
Guam

 

[thor2j]

Iah-Nrt is a 777, thus they have bunks. Just need one empty seat in back for you. If it were a 757 or 767 the IRO seat is usually a first class seat, worst case row 16def. So if it were one of these planes, there would need to be an additional seat open even though they would be open for t/o and lndg.

 

[dojetdriver]

Does CAL still have separate lists for international and domestic?

 

[thor2j]

No. One list as of about a month or two ago.

 

[Guam360]

thanks Thor2j,
so when you referred to 'they', you mean the first class seat is open?
So, if I understand correctly, the IRO on a 75/76 sits in the actual JS for T/O and ldg. and there will be one actual open seat in the back, more than likely a first class seat, then for an OAL or other js'er, there has to be an ADDITIONAL seat open(anywhere) except the lav, ha.?

cool. thanks
back to Japan and beyond....

 

[thor2j]

Yes that is correct.

They dont show as open seats for the iro, they are blocked.