United employee travel benefits
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: HNL
Programs: UA Mileage Plus, DAL sky miles, ANZ air points, USAirways
Posts: 2
United employee travel benefits
Hello all, I just got the job of my dreams at United Airlines. I'm really excited to start but have a question that I'm sure may have already been answered but I'll ask it again (sorry).
What exactly are your travel benefits? I am going to be working in HNL and I have family in New Zealand. Can I use my benefits to fly there? Or give some of my buddy passes to my family to come here?
How soon and often do I get these so called buddy passes?
And while flying on the passes or as an employee... What is the process? Like how do you book your flights and whatnot? Also, any tips for this?
Any info really helps and again, sorry if this was already posted/answered.
Happy flying,
Shawn
What exactly are your travel benefits? I am going to be working in HNL and I have family in New Zealand. Can I use my benefits to fly there? Or give some of my buddy passes to my family to come here?
How soon and often do I get these so called buddy passes?
And while flying on the passes or as an employee... What is the process? Like how do you book your flights and whatnot? Also, any tips for this?
Any info really helps and again, sorry if this was already posted/answered.
Happy flying,
Shawn
#2
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Somewhere I've Driven To
Programs: HiltonHonors, IHG Hotels, DL Skymiles
Posts: 2,070
Hello all, I just got the job of my dreams at United Airlines. I'm really excited to start but have a question that I'm sure may have already been answered but I'll ask it again (sorry).
What exactly are your travel benefits? I am going to be working in HNL and I have family in New Zealand. Can I use my benefits to fly there? Or give some of my buddy passes to my family to come here?
How soon and often do I get these so called buddy passes?
And while flying on the passes or as an employee... What is the process? Like how do you book your flights and whatnot? Also, any tips for this?
Any info really helps and again, sorry if this was already posted/answered.
Happy flying,
Shawn
What exactly are your travel benefits? I am going to be working in HNL and I have family in New Zealand. Can I use my benefits to fly there? Or give some of my buddy passes to my family to come here?
How soon and often do I get these so called buddy passes?
And while flying on the passes or as an employee... What is the process? Like how do you book your flights and whatnot? Also, any tips for this?
Any info really helps and again, sorry if this was already posted/answered.
Happy flying,
Shawn
Congratulations - welcome to UA and FT. Once you're actually on the job, all the resources for this information will be available - employee website .....FlyingTogether.com, company handbooks etc. You can definitely use your flying benefits for United and other airlines (depending on who flies where) as well as family benefits, friends, buddy passes, etc.
I believe there is an initial probabtion period so you may not be using these benefits immediately.
#3
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: SF Bay Area
Programs: UA 1K MM, Marriott Life Plat, various others of little note
Posts: 2,763
Hello all, I just got the job of my dreams at United Airlines. I'm really excited to start but have a question that I'm sure may have already been answered but I'll ask it again (sorry).
What exactly are your travel benefits? I am going to be working in HNL and I have family in New Zealand. Can I use my benefits to fly there? Or give some of my buddy passes to my family to come here?
How soon and often do I get these so called buddy passes?
And while flying on the passes or as an employee... What is the process? Like how do you book your flights and whatnot? Also, any tips for this?
Any info really helps and again, sorry if this was already posted/answered.
Happy flying,
Shawn
What exactly are your travel benefits? I am going to be working in HNL and I have family in New Zealand. Can I use my benefits to fly there? Or give some of my buddy passes to my family to come here?
How soon and often do I get these so called buddy passes?
And while flying on the passes or as an employee... What is the process? Like how do you book your flights and whatnot? Also, any tips for this?
Any info really helps and again, sorry if this was already posted/answered.
Happy flying,
Shawn
You don't book anything, there's an employee website where you can look at the loads and put yourself on the list for a flight but you basically have to turn up on the day and hope you get on. As a new employee the busy and popular flights are going to be difficult. For example, SFO-HKG in the summer and around Chinese New Year is really difficult but SFO-NRT and SFO-PVG are doable most of the time with a bit of luck.
Economy class is now completely free and there are fees to be paid for C and F, more or less based on mileage. SFO-HKG in F, for example, comes out to about $500 R/T.
#4
Original Poster
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: HNL
Programs: UA Mileage Plus, DAL sky miles, ANZ air points, USAirways
Posts: 2
Alright, great! Thank you very much!
#5
Senior Moderator; Moderator, Eco-Conscious Travel, United and Flyertalk Cares
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Fulltime travel/mostly Europe
Programs: UA 1.7 MM;; Accor & Marriott Pt; Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 17,831
Welcome to FlyerTalk. We enjoy having employees on the board to comment and share information about travel, but this is not a resource board for airline employees. The best place to have your questions answered is through United and employee groups. As such, I am closing this thread.
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l'etoile
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