A once great Airline

[eolesen]

How 'bout their kid?

If you consider travel part of the compensation you get for working at an airline, yes. My kids paid a price for my being an airline employee, too.

Seriously, where do you stop at splitting the hairs?... Something like this?...

D2C (active employee commuting to work)
D2E (active employee alone)
D2F (active employee with family)
D2R (retiree)
D2S (active spouse alone)
D2U (active dependent alone)
D2V (retiree spouse)
D2W (retiree widow)
D3E (d3 of an active employee)
D3R (d3 of a retiree)

If you want AA to have the most complicated priority listing system ever invented, keep at it, folks. It used to be pretty simple to guess if you'd get on a plane.

Do crap like what I just posted above, and nobody will ever be able to plan with any degree of confidence, and you'll drive the gate agents into the ground trying to make sense of it all when someone asks where they are on the priority list...

 

[topDawg]

If you consider travel part of the compensation you get for working at an airline, yes. My kids paid a price for my being an airline employee, too.

Seriously, where do you stop at splitting the hairs?... Something like this?...

D2C (active employee commuting to work)
D2E (active employee alone)
D2F (active employee with family)
D2R (retiree)
D2S (active spouse alone)
D2U (active dependent alone)
D2V (retiree spouse)
D2W (retiree widow)
D3E (d3 of an active employee)
D3R (d3 of a retiree)

If you want AA to have the most complicated priority listing system ever invented, keep at it, folks. It used to be pretty simple to guess if you'd get on a plane.

Do crap like what I just posted above, and nobody will ever be able to plan with any degree of confidence, and you'll drive the gate agents into the ground trying to make sense of it all when someone asks where they are on the priority list...

Wow what a Cluster. I thought Delta was a bit much
 
S1B Emergency pass 
S2 Active employee, dependents vacation passes 
S3 Active employees, dependents 
S3B Retired/ non-dependent (they pay for it)/ Active parents (Free)
S3C DCI employees
S4 buddy passes.  
 
Actives/dependents get 6 S2s a year unlimited S3. 50 buck pass fee. 8 buddy passes. the parents I think get 18 S3Bs are year for free then unlimited pay for after that. 
Retired get unlimited S3Bs. there kids get unlimited S3Bs but have to pay for them. 
 
Getting the emergency pass is for everyone. I know when my great grand father died my grand father (retired) got them for him, grandma, my mom/dad and me.
 
Oh and everything is date of hire. No first come first serve. (also non revs are allowed in all classes)  

 

[traderjake]

 
How 'bout their kid?

 
Dependant children should board after retirees, IMO. 

 

[MetalMover]

 
Dependant children should board after retirees, IMO. 

So the parents should take the first flight and hope their 6 month old baby gets the next one?

 

[WorldTraveler]

Wow what a Cluster. I thought Delta was a bit much
 
S1B Emergency pass 
S2 Active employee, dependents vacation passes 
S3 Active employees, dependents 
S3B Retired/ non-dependent (they pay for it)/ Active parents (Free)
S3C DCI employees
S4 buddy passes.  
 
Actives/dependents get 6 S2s a year unlimited S3. 50 buck pass fee. 8 buddy passes. the parents I think get 18 S3Bs are year for free then unlimited pay for after that. 
Retired get unlimited S3Bs. there kids get unlimited S3Bs but have to pay for them. 
 
Getting the emergency pass is for everyone. I know when my great grand father died my grand father (retired) got them for him, grandma, my mom/dad and me.
 
Oh and everything is date of hire. No first come first serve. (also non revs are allowed in all classes)

you forgot Skyteam and non-Skyteam but equity airlines like Gol and Virgin Atlantic which are not to be confused by other airline (not partners of DL) employees.

Dependent eligibility changed with ObamaCare.

 

[topDawg]

you forgot Skyteam and non-Skyteam but equity airlines like Gol and Virgin Atlantic which are not to be confused by other airline (not partners of DL) employees.

Dependent eligibility changed with ObamaCare.

blah to lazy to look up the codes for ZED PAX. I think they are S3C too though? 
 
Oh and did the flight stuff change with ObamaCare? I know they stay on insurance till 26......

 

[Bandit6794]

Im getting therapy now...Its being free from self-centered company lap dawgs like you

 

[traderjake]

So the parents should take the first flight and hope their 6 month old baby gets the next one?

 
Six month old babies should not fly, it's bad for their health and discourteous to the other passengers. 
 
Have Grandma fly to you.

 

[MetalMover]

 
Six month old babies should not fly, it's bad for their health and discourteous to the other passengers. 
 
Have Grandma fly to you.

How about a 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9, 10, 11, 12  year old? should they get sepaerated from their parents? Should they not fly either?

 

[traderjake]

How about a 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9, 10, 11, 12 year old? should they get sepaerated from their parents? Should they not fly either?

 
IMO, an active employee or retiree should get on the airplane before somebody's kid.
 
If you can't get on the plane with the kid's priority, don't go. 

 

[FWAAA]

 
IMO, an active employee or retiree should get on the airplane before somebody's kid.
 
If you can't get on the plane with the kid's priority, don't go. 

And IMO, you shouldn't have been subjected to the pretend union your colleagues forced upon you for all those years until yesterday (the USAPA), but life sometimes craps on you.  
 
As a pilot, you have one trump card that the employees' kids don't have:   you can sit on a jumpseat if necessary, meaning you'll have a better shot than most at getting where you need to go.    

 

[lax]

My vote:
 
D1
 
D2 (active AA emp and spouses, kids, parents, rc with employee)
 
D2R (retired AA)
 
D2P (spouses, kids, parents, rc w/o employee)
 
D2E (wholly-owned emps)
 
D3
 
ZED

 

[traderjake]

And IMO, you shouldn't have been subjected to the pretend union your colleagues forced upon you for all those years until yesterday (the USAPA), but life sometimes craps on you.  

 
We won the lottery going from USAirways and USAPA to American and APA.
 
It's all good.

 

[traderjake]

As a pilot, you have one trump card that the employees' kids don't have:   you can sit on a jumpseat if necessary, meaning you'll have a better shot than most at getting where you need to go.    

 
We could reserve the jumpseat FCFS a week in advance.
 
Under the American system the senior pilot in any city is the only one who can depend on using the jumpseat. 
 
With our system everyone could plan their commute accordingly, under the American only the senior pilot can plan.

 

[Bob Owens]

IMO, an active employee or retiree should get on the airplane before somebody's kid.
 
If you can't get on the plane with the kid's priority, don't go.

Obviously someone who doesn't have kids.

Families should stay together.