C441, I was only alluding to the situation relating to Crew Commuting using staff travel, not duty vs leisure travel,
No doubt a manager on Duty travel will have higher onload/upgrade priority.
I dont know what you can do about the situation you describe, if they are abusing the Duty Travel system?
But for Staff Leisure Travel domestically, J18 applies for all current staff, and your 30 years will see you in Business, before an exec who has been with the company 5 minutes, and is on Leisure travel.
It will also see you into Domestic business ahead of a lot of other fellow staff, even more so Internationally, with a Higher Upgrade Priority than a lot of other staff have.