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Jumpseat on Iceland Air from USA

Old 7th Nov 2009, 16:13
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Jumpseat on Iceland Air from USA

Trying to go to Europe via Reykjavik, Iceland and spend three days each way in Reykjavik.

Can any Iceland Air pilot tell if a US [airline] pilot can jump-seat out of Seattle or Minneapolis to Europe via Reykjavik?

Thanks!

P.S. What would be the proper ‘Forum’ to post this on?
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Old 8th Nov 2009, 09:39
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I'm not an Icelandair pilot, but I'm pretty sure that the only way you could jumpseat would be to have someone you know whithin the company get you a stby ticket. (Or staff travel ticket, rather).
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Old 8th Nov 2009, 09:57
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In Europe, Perwazee, we cannot "jumpseat" in the US manner even on our own airlines. However we can sit in the jumpseat if we have a standby ticket and the flight is full.

eg KLM pilots have to pay Z fares to travel (within europe or further afield) even on KLM flights.

So I doubt you can ride without a ticket on Icelandair if that is what you mean by jumpseating.
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Thanks to both of you!

I sounds like I will have to buy the 'Zed' fare on Iceland. I appreciate your time and effort to reply.

Cheers!
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Where in Europe do you want to go?
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eg KLM pilots have to pay Z fares to travel (within europe or further afield) even on KLM flights.
Piton, you are partially wrong. KLM Pilots and F/A’s can jumpseat to/from their country of residency. For leisure travel they have to buy a Z ticket, which is (with all the taxes) often more expensive than a full fare ticket.
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