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Another nice screw you that United hands us is a United employee that bumps us off our own metal using a vacation pass can rescind the vacation pass before getting on their own flight doesn't get tagged for using said vacation pass.

Meaning, as example, a main line United employee can use a vaca pass to get on a SkyWest plane from SLC to LAX to OGG, get on before a SkyWest employee and then cancel the flight to OGG, never gets charged for the vaca pass.

All in all, United bennies totally suck, and I bend over United flights any chance I have.

WaterRooster

Wow... Bumped on our own metal. That's ridiculous

Crazy Canuck

you can thank our PATHETIC "people's" department for that.

Crazy Canuck

FWIW I have non reved plenty on United. They have always been very good to me. You just can't please some people!

WaterRooster

I was going to say.... I used to throw bags for Air Wisco 10 years ago and never really had a problem other then, well, it's non-reving

Paid2fly

Non-reving on UA with your whole family is almost impossible.

FlyinRabbit88

The fun part when you see a ua employee do that and get busted and pulled off the plane. Be sure to screen shot at 1 hour prior to see priority of the ua employees then notice it before departure. If they pull it the employee can lose all their benefits and possibly get fired. They also can't add a vacation pass inside 1 hour. IIt happened in IAH a year ago and it was glorious to watch when the express employee declared Shenanigans and got a supervisor involved and they proceeded to walk the employee off the plane causing said employee to break down in tears trying to plead her case and say she didn't know she couldn't do that. Was glorious to see in person.

GSintercept

After reading all this information on non reving it seems as if it is next to impossible on United especially if it is including your family..

Are discounted guaranteed tickets an option so you don't have to be on standby and actually get onto the plane?

Turbosina

The only way to make United non-rev 'benefits' work is if you don't care where you go.

Case in point. My wife and I wanted to go to Hong Kong on UAL. Flight was wide open at 3 hours to departure, with more than 40 seats avail. At 1 hr to departure, all of a sudden 45 United vacation passes appeared out of thin air.

So we walked over to the Honolulu gate, only to have the exact same thing happen. I swear, there's something about mainline UAL employees that makes them wait until the very last second to list for a flight.

We almost gave up, but there was 1 seat left to Kona, HI. My wife got that. I got the jumpseat.

Coming back to the mainland was a whole other adventure that made me rue the day I ever decided to try non-reving on United.

So like I said, if you don't care where or when you go, United nonrev can work.

If you care where or when you go? Save yourself the heartache and get a job that pays an actual living wage so you can afford an actual ticket to go where you want, when you want....

DENpilot

They're d***s. No joke. I'm not sure if they think this form of "non-rev sniping" somehow gets them a better chance at getting on or what. However, it seriously screws everyone else. Same scenario happened to us trying to go ORD-YVR.