Originally Posted by
sobay_terp
Dead head or non-rev, it seems to me not right to take away the very limited, best seats from paying passengers ($50 or whatever for a domestic non-rev ticket doesn't quite meet the test for me). What other customer oriented service industry would allow their employees to do this?
Don't worry, it's only on-duty deadheaders that will likely be in those seats. It's part of our compensation package so please don't begrudge us that. If CO dislikes it enough, they will attempt to negotiate it out of our contract. Certain flights are deadhead-heavy, most have none. You're gonna see a lot of them around weather events.
You might see a space available PAX there once in a while if there were last minute no-shows or BF upgrades out of the exit row with non-revs coming to fill the vacated seats.