Originally Posted by
chicaloca453
I don't want to take this thread too far OT, but AA is not alone in having special rules for employees. Marriott employees are not allowed to have MR accounts at all. If you get hired by Marriott, you have to surrender all points and status before accepting the job. If they find out you did not, you could lose your job on the spot. At least AA employees are allowed to have AAdvantage accounts and get miles on flights that they pay regular fare for.
I agree with the posts here that it is to keep the employees out of the lounges all day while waiting to non-rev. Interestingly enough, DL does allow their employees to buy SC memberships and use the lounge even when nonreving. It's very interesting how different travel businesses have different rules for employees.
I wish DL still followed the AA rule.
There was a time when most USA carriers did not permit employees, except possibly for a very few extremely high level ones who were entitled to book confirmed FC travel, to join lounge programs nor were they even permitted in general to enter airline lounges.
I was shocked a few weeks ago to see a bunch of DL pilots in DL uniforms in a DL lounge. Even for employees who are lounge members, I thought they still could not use the lounge while in uniform.