Originally Posted by
ung1
Ok, so no limit on how many people, but just on the number of flights a year to prevent people from selling the benefit I presume.
And are the ID90 tickets confirmed tickets or standby tickets? I was under the impression the deeply discounted ones are standby whereas confirmed reservations require a regular commercial (full price) ticket.
My bro is an EY 77 captain and he gets 20 tickets to give to anyone he chooses, so called 'buddy tickets'. He has a list of 10 names he needs to complete for the people he wants to give tickets to. He is allowed to edit this list at any time. As a captain, his tickets are entitled to First class, as a first officer only Business class.
Cabin crew get 10 tickets, but they can only edit their list twice a year. This was done to stop people from selling tickets. As far as I know, cabin crew only get Y tickets to hand out as part of buddy tickets.
Seperate to this, spouse, kids and parents get unlimited tickets. Not sure this applies to cabin crew.
ID90 is load based. If there is a seat, you MAY get it. There was one time myself and another 5 or so ID90 ticket holders were offloaded at the gate even though there were seats due to load restrictions, i.e plane was too heavy.
Also ID50 doesn't mean you are guaranteed a seat. You can be offloaded if the flight is overbooked. I was always under the impression you were guaranteed a seat but I've been told people have been offloaded.
Whenever I fly on staff tickets I check the loads right up to leaving to the airport in order to minimise the chance of being offloaded.
No perks, so no lounge or chauffeur which is to be expected.