One day, people will realise that working for BA is not quite so rosy as everyone assumes.
No unlimited free standby tickets I'm afraid. In fact your 'travel companion' cannot even come away on a trip with you, because you must be travelling with them in order for them on the same ticket, in order to get them an ID90 standby ticket. So unless you are married/living together, you can never take someone on a trip using staff travel. (The exception is Christmas). This policy is supposed to be changing for 2009 though, so that you can nominate any two people and they can use your concessions with or without you. Finally after nine years in the company, I'll be able to start making proper use of my travel concessions!