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#434256 by pkatmk
08 Feb 2008, 18:22
Originally posted by Decker
Members may easily review another member's recent posting history by clicking on the member name to go to their profile and then following the links under 'My Recent Posts'.


Cryptic, but ingeniously tactful. And in the same vain I would like to contribute:

The definition of most words can be found in a dictionary
#434273 by Speedbird223
08 Feb 2008, 20:11
Originally posted by slinky09
have discounts of 99.9% at Louis Vuitton[:p]


and they'd still be overpriced... [;)]
#434308 by webdes03
08 Feb 2008, 23:43
While any benefits an employee receives from their company is personal, it is known that airline employees get airline perks that you're most likely not going to get flying a desk at your local office building. Generally specific limitations are kept within the company, but free stand-by travel, discounted revenue travel, negotiated interline agreements, and other 'travel' discounts/perks are common.

When I worked under DL we had unlimited free stand-by domestic travel, 6 free stand-by transoceanic days per year (traveler pays taxes), unlimited yield fare transoceanic travel (after the 6 free ones were gone), and access to ID90 tickets (stand-by travel for 90% off lowest published fare) on dozens of airlines, and ID95 tickets (stand-by travel for 95% off lowest published fare) on SkyTeam airlines. That with a multitude of car rental and hotel chain discounts for when you got to where you were going. Our flight benefits included your parents, significant other/spouse and dependent children, plus 8 buddy passes for friends and other family per year. We had to pay $50/year to have a flight pass card.

There were quite a few other things as well, but most people only care about the flight benefits. I wouldn't expect an active airline employee to just offer up their benefit package to a public forum, but you can expect it to include a mix of discounted and free air travel within the company, and more often than not, interline agreements as well. How much you get to use them varies within companies quite a bit. DL counted transoceanic as 'days' and everything else as a trip, whereas UA and some other carriers permit employees to X number of segments.

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