Jumpseating to/from PVR Alaska

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01-24-2012, 07:04 AM

Shaggy1970

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Jumpseating to/from PVR Alaska

Planning on a vacation soon and was wondering how difficult it is to Jumpseat to and from PVR, or should I just buy a ticket. Anyone with experience out there? Thanks for your time.

01-24-2012, 08:43 AM

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Here's what I know from experience, not from our manuals. We (AK guys & gals) can have our BCP list us as additional crewmembers which only thing that does is save on the international taxes/fees of an international pass, I don't know if off-line crew can do this or not. We still CANNOT fly in the jumpseat however so it's limited to space in the cabin. My advice...buy a ticket.

01-26-2012, 02:49 PM

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Had a friend who commuted out of PVR to PHX for years. He had good luck jumpseating (cabin seat) on the way down, but had to non-rev or zed fare back to the states.

02-03-2012, 07:33 AM

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I just went there in dec on Alaska, loads were bad and I bought cheap tickets on Alaska.com.

02-03-2012, 08:52 AM

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You shouldn't have to use a zed, ID90, or any other pass if you want to jumpseat. List ahead of time, check in at the ticket counter in Mexico and identify yourself as an OAL jumpseater. They will collect your taxes there and put you on the standby list.

I can only comment on the loads in general. We have flights to SEA, SFO, LAX and Friday Saturday Sunday service to SAN. SEA is almost always full no matter what day of the week. You can nonrev/jumpseat to the other cities if you nonrev against the herd, i.e. fly down on Sunday, return on Friday, as apposed to trying to fly down on Friday and trying to fly back on Sunday.

PM some dates if you like, I can give you the smiley/frown faces and make specific suggestions.