Question for airline employees....?

Question

I know that airline employees fly for free, but do they recieve extra tickets and is it possible to sell those tickets?

Answer 1

The extra tickets received are called buddy passes and only some airlines provide them free. Most airlines are starting to charge a surcharge and you still have to pay a percentage and taxes. To pay for a ticket that doesn't guarantee you a seat isn't the best option. When I worked for an airline I would usually help friends find a seat on a plane for cheaper than my buddy passes would have cost them by doing searches on the internet.
AND NO YOU AREN'T ALLOWED TO SELL THOSE TICKETS. That's how you get fired.

Answer 2

Airlines do allows their employees to travel free of charge, or have to pay a small processing fee for employee travel passes on any of the airline routes. Along with this privilege, interline agreements bring reduced fares for airline employees to travel with other airlines.
In reference to extra tickets, I believe you are referring to tickets for spouses, parents, children, etc. Most airlines do allow limited travel for relatives, either under the same policies governing employee travel, or at certain discounts.
Company travel passes are the property of your company, and restricted to company personnel, and any employee's relatives who the airline authorizes to use them. They are not the employee's property. If you sell them to someone who is not an employee (or even give them away), and an attempt is made by another person to use them, I can guarantee your company will react with immediate disciplinary action against you, resulting in your possible dismissal. Furthermore, your company may also view this as a fraudulent act on your part, and lodge a complaint with the authorities (which may be the RCMP in Canada, or the FBI in the States, since airlines fall under federal jurisdiction), which could result in a charge laid for a criminal act.
Not a good idea to do this.

JohnB

Answer 3

We pay the taxes , and in most cases you can't sell your tickets, you can fly with your family and friends, but selling them.........I wouldn't, the only reason is you or the person travelling under the airline's prospective is representing the airline, I've run into issues where I give someone a pass I hardly know, they disrupt and argue over their seating on the plane and it came back to me, so anyone that does sell you a pass would have to really know you as you represent them when you travel.......some people forget that and complain or disrupt .....and it goes right back to the employee who in turn.......can be terminated.






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Answer 4

You generally get a free ticket, but can't sell them. You can transfer it to a family member, and can get discounted tickets for friends and such.