UA [First Class] ORD-BRU
Jul 17, 2010 | 11:15 am
#46
Join Date: Jun 2008
Programs: TK*G (E+), IHG Plat Ambassador
Posts: 7,884
You did not mention if you fly paid J or use different devices to sit there. Do you pay for your tickets or does your company/stock holders pay for your perk of sitting in J as opposed to Y? Does a perk/company policy of one company mean that the perk/company policy of an airline employee is less deserved? Just curious how people justify all the consternation of one work group getting a benefit over another? Do your FF miles go to you for your next vacation or do they go back to the company/stockholders to save $$ on your future business travel? When you travel do you stay at a perfectly acceptable, clean, HI Express or similar or do you stay at the FS Marriott or similar at the expense of the company/stockholder?
Please do not take these questions as being hostile. It is an honest attempt to understand why some FF's feel that company perks are good for one industry as opposed to others.
Please do not take these questions as being hostile. It is an honest attempt to understand why some FF's feel that company perks are good for one industry as opposed to others.
When my company pays for tickets I ride in Y to in the States and in C to Asia/Australia. But when we re-charge clients for our T&I (90% of my travel), it is C for all intercontinental flights (intra-Europe is always in Y, unless feeder to intercontinental C). Our Travel Policy encourages all employees to utilize FF schemes (and keep miles to themselves).
I do not have a problem with airline employees traveling in C or F (not that I fly in F
), just do not like what DL does upgrading everyone (that includes Buddy Pass riders) to C. But at the same time, I do not think it is right that with Asian carriers (and with IB, MX, LH) deadheading F/As flying on duty travel in Y, while C is half empty.PS. Quite recently was an interesting discussion on the SK forum, when a Gold member was upset that when Y was oversold a deadheading F/A was upgraded to C iso him. I believe, I was the only one who actually questioned a logic of upgrading a Gold member and supported GA's decision to upgrade a F/A (just bear in mind that in Europe/Asia Gold members are not upgraded to a higher class of service just only because they are Golds - Y must be oversold).
