We were both on vacation travel. Which entity he worked for
is irrelevant - it was only mentioned as the last few posts of the thread were about Cobham staff travel and were they'll fit in the whole scheme of things. I'm merely documenting that I would have thought years of service and supposedly being a Senior Officer of the organisation (the Company's definition, not mine) would have had some benefit. It does not.
The person in question was a clerk and seemed to be over-awed with his new-found status when he was awarded a seat ahead of me. Most non-managerial Qantas staff have the same, or similar vacation travel categories and it's the date of joining that determines who's unloaded* or upgraded first. As he was non-managerial, I would have thought that having joined the company before he was born
, might have meant something for me.
But I'll take your advice and buy a full fare ticket when I deem it necessary. Actually, come to think of it, I'll buy a Jetstar staff travel ticket; there's usually more seats and it costs half as much!
Sorry for the diversion away from the Cobham thread.
* Edit: Freudian slip or what?
Maybe auto error correction has a sense of humour.