Originally Posted by
CaptainJim
I understand that but as I originally stated it is an excellent tax free salary incentive that would make everyone’s life easier.
That depends on country. In Germany it is not tax free in general, there is a personal tax break for discounted stuff (including all discounted things because of work), but if you go above that you have to pay taxes.
That said, i did enjoy staff travel with either direct reciprocal discount or ZED tickets all over the world, and especially so the chance to use business travel on longhaul flights as that makes longhaul flights bearable to begin with. Now working in an airline that has no deal with any other airline (we have internal staff travel though, both standby and confirmed bookings) i have to adjust there and search for normal tickets like anybody else in the general public, and that is no problem either.