Do you get free airfare if your an employee of an airline?
September 14th, 2009
I know most airlines give free airfare to their pilots and flight attendants, but what about people who work in the corporate offices?
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September 17th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Yes. They get a few tickets too. You can bet on it.
September 19th, 2009 at 6:12 am
Travel concessions usually apply to all employees after a certain period of service.
Further, these staff often have better access to the airline’s staff travel department than the aircrew do.
September 19th, 2009 at 6:40 am
No, u get stand by tickets if their is empty seats on a flight u get on it is about 50 dollars per person
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:07 am
Airlines have perks for their employees, and these usually include reduced fare travel, usually at space-available for greatly reduced face. Some travel is at 25% or 50% of the fare for positive-space travel. Generally this is available to all employees. Many other airlines allow other airline employees to travel at reduced cost as well.
Regards,
Dan
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:26 pm
My friend’s father works for AA. They can travel “at cost” but they must fly standby. If the flight they want is full, they don’t get to go.
September 26th, 2009 at 5:26 am
You do get free travel for you and your immediate family but that is assuming there are available seats. Employees and those having buddy passes are boarded last and can be bumped off a flight if someone buys a ticket at the last minute.
September 27th, 2009 at 4:19 am
At the airline that I worked for, employee, spouse, and kids got unlimited travel, for free, if seats were available. We were not charged any taxes for domestic flights, but for foreign flights, the airline did make us pay the foreign taxes. My wife and I went to Canada and the Bahamas, and paid like $25 each for our tickets (round trip). Another important gotcha is that if you went on a trip somewhere, and the flight back was full so you ended up having to be there an extra day, that was NOT a valid excuse for missing work, and would be an unexcused absence. We also got a certain number of “buddy passes” per year that we could give to our friends, and once the CEO gave every employee a regular non-standby domestic ticket for free.
At the airline my dad worked for, they got a certain number of tickets each year, for employee/spouse/kids/friends. Standby. The employee didn’t have to pay for the ticket, but if one got used, and say that flight would cost you or I $400, they reported to the IRS that the employee received a $400 bonus, so they’d have to pay income tax on that money.
September 28th, 2009 at 12:12 am
They do get cheaper prices and the seats that are going empty are given to them for free or for very low price.