Airline Pilot Personal Travel

With ticket prices being so low the airlines are full so travel for employees is tough sometimes. I have to admit it is fun to be able to go and hop on a flight and travel for free. As an airline pilot you also have the privilege of jumpseating. Yesterday the airline I fly for was full so I walked to another airlines gate and asked if I could jumpseat. The gate agent was really nice and let me on.
This is a nice benefit to being an airline pilot. Before long if they keep driving the wages and the work rules in the ground this privilege will not hold much weight but for now it is nice.

My corporate pilot friends say they don't really miss the jumpseat or airline travel privilege because they make more money so they just buy tickets. With ticket prices so low it doesn't take much of a pay raise to make airline travel benefits not too valuable. I only hop on a plane for fun maybe 8 times a year so it not as if I use it much. Many of my airline pilot friends who live in base don't travel much more either.