Buying tickets to commute
#11
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jan 2019
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For clarity, I think it's actually OK to buy a revenue ticket AFTER you get denied for nonrev? I've done that.
What they don't want you doing is blocking a revenue seat and then cancelling that at the last moment, when it's too late to sell it to someone else.
Airlines shouldn't mind if YOU pay the inflated walk-up fare at the last minute.
What they don't want you doing is blocking a revenue seat and then cancelling that at the last moment, when it's too late to sell it to someone else.
Airlines shouldn't mind if YOU pay the inflated walk-up fare at the last minute.
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#13
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2008
Posts: 19,619
In the days EA Shuttle was advertising they'd roll out the shuttle back-up, if they couldn't accommodate all he passengers for that hour's shuttle. A NY captain is denied boarding, so he cleverly slaps down his credit card and asks for the shuttle backup to give him a flight home. After the agent stopped laughing, he was referred to his chief pilot.
#15
There was zero wrong with that. You always have the option to buy a regular ticket if unable to non rev. You just can't do it in advance as a placeholder you only intend to use as a backup. I bought more than a few tickets commuting to work. On one occasion I had a flight attendant go crazy on me when I placed my crew bag in the overhead bin yelling something about not for jumpseaters check your bag. It was on American not my airline. I put the bag there anyway and walked straight to the cockpit and explained to the CA I was a revenue passenger and a platinum on American. I said the flight attendant yelling was unacceptable even if I had been jumpseating and if she wanted to apologize after the flight I would consider not writing up the experience to AA. She apologized but her heart was not in it. What made it better was they had a last minute no show and I got upgraded to first after her tirade!
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