Originally Posted by
A P Yu
By the time you've paid the taxes for Staff Travel tickets, if you have sufficient notice, most pilots would probably buy Hotline Revenue tickets as the difference in cost is often too small to justify the uncertainty. Or even just use other carriers.
That’s possibly true around Europe, but further afield Hotlines aren’t such good value and Staff Travel is still quite a lot cheaper even with the taxes.
Using other (low cost) carriers is all very well but few of them go into LHR. BA straight into T5 is generally quite desirable. Also the flexibility of Staff Travel (in terms of choosing any flight) is desirable too.
For the commuters Staff Travel is pretty essential.