I still cant figure out if seniority boarding is such a bad thing how I managed to make it to about 35 countries and ?? number of trips across the US and Canada and still make it there and back? 😉
I never realized before what a problem it was to travel like that.
Worked at US without problems for 20+ years...
I've traveled several trips in the past few months and have done both systems. I really dont care which way it goes since I was number 1 or 2 listed on the HP flights I was on and had my seniority on the US flights. My problems are as follows.... on the HP flight this past week while trying to check in early in the am, I got the response my eticket was invalid and I had to check in at the ATO to get it corrected. Wrong answer. Nothing was wrong with it, and I wasnt driving 3 hours before the end of my vacation to get an ATO agent to correct it. The system didnt work period. For that I might have been penalized on checkin time? How is that fair? I've also heard from agents trying to check in in Europe with their laptops that the system was down (luckily they were seniority checkins and not FCFS or they would have been out of luck).
Also with the West system, can any agent advise me how to transfer a standby from one city (PHX) to the standby list for another city (LAS) without losing the time of checkin? I havent been told a way to do this (and I've asked) and if there is one, I might be a little more convinced this way is a little more friendly. The West basically had PHX and a LAS or two as far as connections. Try rerouting from CLT/PHL/PIT/DCA/LGA/BOS to try to get somewhere and losing your checkin time from the early am because you are now trying to connect in a different city because the flights were full. So each time you transfer to a different connecting city you start all over again? Is this correct or not? If so, how is this fair to someone who has been at the airport all day trying to get out only to get bumped by someone who checked in later on a later flight, but was ahead of your checkin because everything else was full?
Another trip, the flight left at 130pm which would have meant a 130am checkin time. We were staying in a private rental in the middle of Bermuda with no computer, computer access or phone access. For all the FCFS people, you're going to tell me to stay somewhere that has WIFI and a free computer to use next time right? lol
If my flight is leaving at 700am and I'm out at dinner enjoying my last night of vacation, I'm supposed to stop whatever I'm doing and find a computer to run to and list? If I'm leaving at 3pm, you're really expecting people to get up at 3am and get on the list and go back to sleep? How is this nonrev friendly? It sounds crazy.
I dont know why everyone is so paranoid out West about seniority boarding. All 20000 of us arent going to be trying to get on the same plane with you anyway. Everyone always has the argument about everyone running up at the last minute and "bumping" you down. This can happen now with someone else using their SA1s at the last minute anyway so whats it really matter that you are the first SA3 on the list if someone is dragging their family of 6 along on an SA1? Also, we have been hiring like crazy recently so anyone who has been around for a year or so should have a couple thousand? under them already. I know we have about 25 in my station alone that have less than a year.
I never realized before what a problem it was to travel like that.
Worked at US without problems for 20+ years...
I've traveled several trips in the past few months and have done both systems. I really dont care which way it goes since I was number 1 or 2 listed on the HP flights I was on and had my seniority on the US flights. My problems are as follows.... on the HP flight this past week while trying to check in early in the am, I got the response my eticket was invalid and I had to check in at the ATO to get it corrected. Wrong answer. Nothing was wrong with it, and I wasnt driving 3 hours before the end of my vacation to get an ATO agent to correct it. The system didnt work period. For that I might have been penalized on checkin time? How is that fair? I've also heard from agents trying to check in in Europe with their laptops that the system was down (luckily they were seniority checkins and not FCFS or they would have been out of luck).
Also with the West system, can any agent advise me how to transfer a standby from one city (PHX) to the standby list for another city (LAS) without losing the time of checkin? I havent been told a way to do this (and I've asked) and if there is one, I might be a little more convinced this way is a little more friendly. The West basically had PHX and a LAS or two as far as connections. Try rerouting from CLT/PHL/PIT/DCA/LGA/BOS to try to get somewhere and losing your checkin time from the early am because you are now trying to connect in a different city because the flights were full. So each time you transfer to a different connecting city you start all over again? Is this correct or not? If so, how is this fair to someone who has been at the airport all day trying to get out only to get bumped by someone who checked in later on a later flight, but was ahead of your checkin because everything else was full?
Another trip, the flight left at 130pm which would have meant a 130am checkin time. We were staying in a private rental in the middle of Bermuda with no computer, computer access or phone access. For all the FCFS people, you're going to tell me to stay somewhere that has WIFI and a free computer to use next time right? lol
If my flight is leaving at 700am and I'm out at dinner enjoying my last night of vacation, I'm supposed to stop whatever I'm doing and find a computer to run to and list? If I'm leaving at 3pm, you're really expecting people to get up at 3am and get on the list and go back to sleep? How is this nonrev friendly? It sounds crazy.
I dont know why everyone is so paranoid out West about seniority boarding. All 20000 of us arent going to be trying to get on the same plane with you anyway. Everyone always has the argument about everyone running up at the last minute and "bumping" you down. This can happen now with someone else using their SA1s at the last minute anyway so whats it really matter that you are the first SA3 on the list if someone is dragging their family of 6 along on an SA1? Also, we have been hiring like crazy recently so anyone who has been around for a year or so should have a couple thousand? under them already. I know we have about 25 in my station alone that have less than a year.
