Regional Travel Bennies

[Jimbodawg]

Can you tell me what benefits you and your family recieve for travel at your airline?

 

[Jimbodawg]

thanks for the rating

Thanks for the rating...

 

[WMUSIGPI]

It varies quite a bit by company. Do you have a specific company or any way to narrow things down some?

 

[Hobit]

How about some comments from the guys/gals flying for the following:
ASA
XJT
CMR
Colgan
TSA
PDT
Commute Air
Horizon



Just to get things started.

 

[pianoman]

XJT travel bennies

* These are all from the last time I used them, and may have changed.

Domestic on CAL/XJT: $10/one way, $40/o-w First Class
Most int'l: $50/o-w, $130/o-w First Class

These are unlimited.

We get SW for ~25 one way and NW is a little cheaper I think. I can't remember if we have a deal like that with America West. ID 90's on just about any domestic carrier except DL, which I think is ID95. (That means you get 90/95 percent off a full-fare ticket, which is usually around $1000 or so.)

Zonal fares on many worldwide carriers, which can be a pretty good deal too. They vary according to how far (what zones) you are flying.

You get a set of vacation passes, which I think is about 6 r/t tickets anywhere we fly and you can try for first class. The number varies depending on how you use them. These are free passes.

You also get 10? roundtrip buddy passes, which you can use for anyone you want, but they end up being around $120 r/t with tax and all.

Then there's always the jumpseat.

 

[CapnVegetto]

At Mesa, of course we had 3 airline partners, (USAir, America West, and United), and you got benefits on whichever mainline system you were assigned. We all got AWA benefits....just for working for Mesa. Standby, non-rev for free, space available for Mom, Dad, and Wife & Kids. If you were in the AWA system, though, (PHX based), you had no United or USAir bennies.

If you were in the United System, you got the same thing for United, Standby non-rev for free, for Mom, Dad, Wife & Brats. You also got the AWA bennies. No USAir bennies.

It was a bit different in the USAir system. You get the AWA bennies, no United bennies. But for your USAir bennies, you had to be a USAir Employee Travel card (good for 1 year) to get your bennies. I think it cost somewhere around $100 bucks. That made you, you Wife & Rugrats, and Mom and Pop good to nonrev on USAir.

By the way, bennies are not just good on mainline and Mesa, they were good on ANY flight operating under the United or USAirways name (Skywest, CHQ, MA, PSA, whatever)

Oh yeah, SWA standby was $25 bucks a leg. ID90's on anybody.

Later!

 

[sweptback]

ASA/CMR are the same so I might as well kill two birds with one stone.

Unlimited domestic travel in first or coach (based on DOH).
18 days worth of international travel in business or coach per year.
6 days worth of a higher standby priority (S2) per year.
8 buddy passes per year.

There is no service charge for anything except for the buddy passes, which is a few cents per mile plus tax. The tax is often just as much or more than the cost of the buddy pass. On international flights, the departure tax from the foreign country will be payroll-deducted.

We also get ID96 basically all of the Skyteam members, except for NW and CO which are ID95 on the codeshare flights only, and of course ID90 on practically everybody else.

 

[ClippedWings]

Anyone have any info on Mesaba bennies?

 

[LearLove]

Can you tell me what benefits you and your family recieve for travel at your airline?

1.Downgrade accompanied by a $20,000/yr paycut
2.Another 10% paycut after being downgraded
3.Pension taken away and 401K switched to crappy funds, money accrued in ALG 401k held hostage, must start new mainline/MDA 401K
4.200 hours of sick time lost
5.2004 vacation lost (2weeks)
6.Switch in healthcare plans so that I now get less benifits and pay more per month out of pocket
7. Domicile where I live and had a hard line downsized so now I get to commute to a new base and sit reserve. And forget about relocating there, my company likes to have crew bases in cities where their employees can't afford to live.

Stay tuned for future employee benifits, comming soon:

8. Company sells division out from under you and get to give up the past 6 years of service to said company and start over again at chq/rep/sa for 22/hr.

 

[QCappy]

At Horizon:

Unlimited Free passes for immediate family on Horizon, Alaska and Frontier, in coach.
$12 each way in First on Alaska.
Various good discounts on almost every other airline.
10 passes a year that can be used for buddys, etc. that only cost about $20 round trip in coach.