AA Travel Benefits

Depends. If you want to go to the ski resorts in the summer and the beach in the middle of the winter, the benefits aren't bad. :lol: Getting on the airplane is the trick--after all, it is Non-Revenue Space Available (NRSA).

I don't know if the benefits varies between work groups or not. I am a flight attendant. No travel benefit at all until you complete probation (6 months). We get free coach travel after 5 years on the payroll. Any time you lose due to furlough/lay off extends the 5-year anniversary date. Until then there is a nominal fee for coach travel.

After two years on the payroll, you get 24 one-way passes a year for family and friends. Unused passes can not be carried over to the following year.
 
Depends. If you want to go to the ski resorts in the summer and the beach in the middle of the winter, the benefits aren't bad. :lol: Getting on the airplane is the trick--after all, it is Non-Revenue Space Available (NRSA).

I don't know if the benefits varies between work groups or not. I am a flight attendant. No travel benefit at all until you complete probation (6 months). We get free coach travel after 5 years on the payroll. Any time you lose due to furlough/lay off extends the 5-year anniversary date. Until then there is a nominal fee for coach travel.

After two years on the payroll, you get 24 one-way passes a year for family and friends. Unused passes can not be carried over to the following year.
Are you sure it is free coach travel after 5 yeats on the payroll?

I was under the impression it was 25 years.....
 
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Depends. If you want to go to the ski resorts in the summer and the beach in the middle of the winter, the benefits aren't bad. :lol: Getting on the airplane is the trick--after all, it is Non-Revenue Space Available (NRSA).

I don't know if the benefits varies between work groups or not. I am a flight attendant. No travel benefit at all until you complete probation (6 months). We get free coach travel after 5 years on the payroll. Any time you lose due to furlough/lay off extends the 5-year anniversary date. Until then there is a nominal fee for coach travel.

After two years on the payroll, you get 24 one-way passes a year for family and friends. Unused passes can not be carried over to the following year.

Thanks... So you have to wait 6 months of employment before you start to travel and you have to pay a fee if its under 5 years of employment. Is the fee pretty expensive? Because right now I work at US airways and we get free Non-Revenue Space Available after 15 days of employment. I thought it will be the same on most of the airlines.
 
Pardon the off-topic question, but if you already work at US, why on earth would you leave to begin at the bottom of AA's seniority ladder? Especially since Doug Parker is going to forcibly merge AA and US in the future? If you're at US at that time, you won't be stapled and you'd get to keep at least relative seniority (DOH or dovetail or something similar). What am I missing? AA's wages aren't anything to write home about.
 
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Pardon the off-topic question, but if you already work at US, why on earth would you leave to begin at the bottom of AA's seniority ladder? Especially since Doug Parker is going to forcibly merge AA and US in the future? If you're at US at that time, you won't be stapled and you'd get to keep at least relative seniority (DOH or dovetail or something similar). What am I missing? AA's wages aren't anything to write home about.
Better job position.
 
one of the best deals with are travel is its basically first come first serve to get on the standby list it's NOT senoirity based. we do get a couple of higher classifaction stand by passes to use once a year. But AA still will put F/A and pilots ahead of regular standbys when they are trying to commute and cann't make there trip. maybe someone could in lighten us on that.

How does usair put standbys on the list?
 
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one of the best deals with are travel is its basically first come first serve to get on the standby list it's NOT senoirity based. we do get a couple of higher classifaction stand by passes to use once a year. But AA still will put F/A and pilots ahead of regular standbys when they are trying to commute and cann't make there trip. maybe someone could in lighten us on that.

How does usair put standbys on the list?
senoirity based
 
Does anyone know how much the fee is for travel before 5 years?
As stated above, the fee is based on distance traveled. And, it changes from time to time. Right now a non-rev roundtrip for DFW to LAX and back for someone under 5 years costs $25.40. That may change tomorrow, but might give you an idea. Round-trip DFW to LGA is $27.06. Shorter flights are less. Longer flights are more.
 
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