If anyone is interested, I may be able to shed a little more light on the Netjets jumpseating "agreements", or lack thereof. A few years ago I was on our jumpseating committee. We were charged with the task of getting as many airlines as possible to put us on their jumpseat lists. I was assigned the freight operators.
The results? Almost every airline and freight operator out there was willing to put us on their list. And they were aware that we, in reality, wouldn't be able to reciprocate much because of the nature of our schedule. Still, for the most part, all they wanted was a letter from our chief pilot agreeing to the reciprocal jumpseat. Easy.
But maybe not. After talking with the airlines, we then had to approach Netjets with the proposed agreements. Santulli's answer: NO! Why not, we asked. Because, says he, since the planes are actually owned by people other than Netjets, we'd have to approach each and every owner and ask permission to let some stranger ride their plane for free, the same plane which we charge them to ride around in.
Hmm. Sounds like a good response from ol' Santulli. Except for one thing. Our written company policy (now the FOM) already said we could take anyone we wanted on an empty leg, all we needed was program manager approval. Heck, I had given friends a ride a few times. We were already letting people ride free on the planes. It was WRITTEN POLICY. And no owners were complaining.
So to finish this story up, no matter how much logic we applied, including bringing our current company policy to Santulli's attention, he wouldn't budge. No jumpseat agreements for Netjets pilots. As I said, most of the airlines were willing to do this, even knowing we wouldn't be able to reciprocate much. It was NETJETS that shut the program down.
Take it for what it's worth.