Burt Reynolds said:
I'm not sure what nerve I hit, but I was just trying to help answer this guy's question.
I am not attacking you. You are just giving this guy incorrect information and/or terminology that is only going to confuse him.
Burt Reynolds said:
You seem to have the answers, but all you're doing is attacking me for the use of incorrect terminology.
I do have the answers becuase I flew for AA for 3 years and non-reved/jumpseated quite a bit. I know how it works. Furthermore, incorrect terminology has gotten people killed in this line of work. Correct terminology/phraseology is kinda important.
Burt Reynolds said:
And no, it's not actually funny that there are no charges on other carriers. Actually, it sucks. Thus the quotation marks.
Ok, I will state this one more time becuase it's obvious that you still dont understand me.
If you jumpseat on AA or AE you are charged NOTHING.
If you jumpseat on another carrier you are charged NOTHING.
Why you don't understand this very simple concept is very strange to me.
Burt Reynolds said:
How's this? (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
Ok, lets go through this line by line.
Burt Reynolds said:
You are a Beagle pilot and:
Ok, we have established that.
Burt Reynolds said:
You list yourself for a flight on Eagle - you pay
Yes, becuase you are non reving using a D2 pass. You are not jumpseating.
Burt Reynolds said:
You list yourself for a flight on AA - you pay
Yes, again becuase you are non reving using a D2 pass. You are not jumpseating.
Burt Reynolds said:
You list yourself for a flight on Eagle or AA and there are no seats available in back and the captain agrees to let you occupy the JUMPSEAT - you don't pay
Correct becuase you are now jumpseating. You are not using a D2 pass. Thus you are not non reving. You are considered a part of the crew.
Burt Reynolds said:
You sit in the jumpseat of an Eagle or AA flight even though there are available seats in back - you pay
First of all post 9/11 that is against company policy. If there are seats in the back you are required to take a seat and then you will be charged a D2 non rev pass becuase you are not jumpseating. Unless you are a Check Airman/Fed you are required to sit in the back with empty seats.
Burt Reynolds said:
You ask to jumpseat on another carrier and you end up sitting in the back OR in an actual jumpseat - you don't pay
Thats becuase you are not non reving. You are considered a part of the crew. You are jumpseating. However, since there is room in the back you must take the seat.
I will take it one step further to see if you can somehow understand this concept.
What can you do if say you go to a Delta Mainline gate and ask for the jumpseat. Until recently Delta's policy was to only allow one jumpseater per jumpseat. So, you arrive at the gate and a SWA pilot has already signed up for the jumpseat. What can you do? You can't take the jumpseat becuase it is already taken. However the gate agent states that there are seats in the back.
Well you can pull out an ID-90 that you purchased way back when and use that. Now you are considered a non rev passenger and can get where you need to go. Are you going to start complaining about ID-90 charges next?
You are comparing apples to oranges here. It's really not all that complicated.