Originally Posted by
Climb150
Where I work your staff travel/stby ticket is confirmed 10 mins before gate closes. Our priority is fare paying pax get a seat first. If there is an empty one then sure you can have it so I agree with twiglet 100%.
Privilege not a right. Fine but you do realise it’s a mutually beneficial thing, right? Otherwise BA and every other airline can get rid of staff travel and not use their staff as a profit centre by filling a seat that otherwise wouldn’t have been sold. If however you want that revenue and you are going to provide a staff travel proposition then treat your staff with a modicum of respect.
All this pontificating does not obviate the fact that we should not be forced to remain landside on a standby/bookable with seats available (as happens as standard at LGW) and risk a very real further chance of not occupying an empty seat by not being able to make it through security and to the gate in time, thats the bottom line. Other airlines manage it perfectly well, the confirmed/standby status is not the core issue here.