Folks,
My daughter burchased a ticket via the internet (which she does often) one month ago to fly today from PIT to PVD (one way as she will be driving home with her boyfriend whose on spring break from law school). Today she goes on line to confirm seating on U (as she often does) and print a boarding pass and it states she is "stand by" STDBY revenue. The ticket was $117 one-way. My daughter's intent was to purchase a space positive seating (just like a regular pax) otherwise, she could just non-rev.
Here is the issue: If we wanted to fly standby as employees, we would not purchase a stand by ticket. No where when purchasing the ticket does my daughter recall the code STDBY. It now shows up on the confirmation. It is restricted as well, so that if the flight is full she loses the money and can't stand by on another flight as stated under "restricted ticket".
She said that she called the employee- line to see how many available seats there are and there happens to be 25. However, she doesn't know how many revenue passengers bought these "STDBY" tickets as the employee line only speaks to non-revenue listing.
The question here is: Since when did our airline start selling revenue STDBY tickets that are restricted? And how does this effect non-revenue employees travel ability to get to and from work? My point is this. Someone had better negotiate SPACE POSITIVE TRAVEL (so many passes per year) otherwise, the workers will have an even harder time to get to work competing with revenue STDBY.
And if a passenger pays for this type of ticket, how do they know how many folks are standing by????
Is there an agent that can speak to this?
where is it on the MEC E-line to alert the f/as that this business marketing idea of STDBY revenue ticket purchases exists at a much lower cost to the public. And what priority boarding does a STDBY passenger have when there are many of them that purchase this ticket, just in case an employee wants to buy one to ensure boarding with pax for the available seats...
And how does this effect non-revenue employees commuting to work/coming home from work or employees/retirees just wanting to travel competing for revenue STDBY passengers who are flying basically space available??
My daughter burchased a ticket via the internet (which she does often) one month ago to fly today from PIT to PVD (one way as she will be driving home with her boyfriend whose on spring break from law school). Today she goes on line to confirm seating on U (as she often does) and print a boarding pass and it states she is "stand by" STDBY revenue. The ticket was $117 one-way. My daughter's intent was to purchase a space positive seating (just like a regular pax) otherwise, she could just non-rev.
Here is the issue: If we wanted to fly standby as employees, we would not purchase a stand by ticket. No where when purchasing the ticket does my daughter recall the code STDBY. It now shows up on the confirmation. It is restricted as well, so that if the flight is full she loses the money and can't stand by on another flight as stated under "restricted ticket".
She said that she called the employee- line to see how many available seats there are and there happens to be 25. However, she doesn't know how many revenue passengers bought these "STDBY" tickets as the employee line only speaks to non-revenue listing.
The question here is: Since when did our airline start selling revenue STDBY tickets that are restricted? And how does this effect non-revenue employees travel ability to get to and from work? My point is this. Someone had better negotiate SPACE POSITIVE TRAVEL (so many passes per year) otherwise, the workers will have an even harder time to get to work competing with revenue STDBY.
And if a passenger pays for this type of ticket, how do they know how many folks are standing by????
Is there an agent that can speak to this?
where is it on the MEC E-line to alert the f/as that this business marketing idea of STDBY revenue ticket purchases exists at a much lower cost to the public. And what priority boarding does a STDBY passenger have when there are many of them that purchase this ticket, just in case an employee wants to buy one to ensure boarding with pax for the available seats...
And how does this effect non-revenue employees commuting to work/coming home from work or employees/retirees just wanting to travel competing for revenue STDBY passengers who are flying basically space available??
