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Old Jul 20, 2010, 5:20 pm
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bluesailmesa
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
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Question about how - or rather *when* - to book the employee seat....

I have heard that as an employee, to avail yourself of the free and/or greatly reduced travel, you have to fly standby, meaning there is a chance you would not be able to depart on the planned departure day or would be stranded and not able to return on the day you need to return by. Especially with the overbooking of flights as they are or at high demand periods. Is this so? Or can you book in advance (and if so how far) on the employee website for either the free ticket or the 90% discount ticket?

2nd Question - as an employee of an airline that flies internationally, I understand you can fly internationally for free or at greatly reduced cost to a city that your airline flies to. What about other international destinations that your airline does not fly to, but that a partnering airline that is a member of the same alliance, such as one world alliance, flies to? For example, as employee of, say, American Airlines, can you enjoy the employee benefit to fly to Amman, Jordan via Royal Jordanian Airlines, even though American doesn't fly there, but Royal Jordanian, a One World Alliance partner of American, does? Thanks....
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