Originally Posted by
JetstreamJ
I believe from a reliable source that is door closure that denotes when the pay for FA's begins. That being said if I am paying over $3K for my wife and I to go to FLL from PDX RT : we still want a PDB!! The pay issue likely varies on the individual airlines.
That's correct, however the same is true for DL and UA and they can both provide a reasonably reliable PDB service on the vast majority of their flights.