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FO.Airbus
Hi
Anyone currently with Easyjet and have first hand up to date info on how staff travel work?
Questions like when can you get tickets? Unlimited? Stand-by or confirmed bookings? How to order tickets? Online? Jumpseats available? Able to see bookings on flight that you are on stand-by for?
Would like to apply for Berlin base and have a short commute to where family is based.
Thanks for any inputs that may come.
4 ways of doing staff travel currently. Unlimited bookings available, 3 other names on the list and you can make 20 name changes per year.
First 3 are booked online, through the ‘staff travel’ link on the company portal. (Looks very much like the normal website, but has the staff options too)
1. Standard ticket: guaranteed seat. they say this is the full fare, though I’m sure it’s often slightly discounted.
2. Staff ticket: generally around £20 each way. Guaranteed seat.
3. Standby ticket: often becomes confirmed before date of travel though this is clearly the more risky option. Also often around £20
Hold luggage on standard and staff tickets is £5 (c.£10 for skis etc) so that’s really where you save a decent amount.
Keep in in mind that the staff tickets and standby tickets depend on load factors, so it’s not available for all flights but there’s usually a good selection.
Confirmed staff travel and standby travel will only become available 90 days from the date of departure.
Last option if you are from a city served by your base network is the commuter letter. Base Captain / admin team can sort that out - basically allows free travel between two cities. Certain rules apply for this:
You’re meant to book a staff ticket or confirmed ticket if one is available, though I’m not entirely sure how this is ever checked so the risk would be yours.
Then if one isn’t available, you go to the airport in full uniform, no hold luggage, use staff security, and show the gate agent your commuter letter. If there’s space in the cabin you get that, if not you get a jumpseat if there’s no training, and if there are no commuters with a higher seniority than you (which is based on when you get the letter, not when you join the company or which rank you hold).
I’d say 99% of the time you’ll get on, though you can get unlucky and pick the flight that’s totally full, with flight deck training happening and another more senior commuter commuter / positioning crew on board in which case you’re stuck.
Hope that helps!