Non Rev travel

Non revenue (non rev) travel is how airline employees can go on vacation. While you can go just about anywhere your particular company travels, you do have to contend with the fact that since your seat may be free, paying customers get served first. Which is how it should be, because, they make sure that I have a job. Patience is a virtue in this industry. A lot of people think just because you get to fly for free that you can go anywhere. You can. You just have to be flexible and maybe go in the off peak flying season (think Hawaii in the fall). And also realize, you might not get there at all if all the flights are oversold.

In my 19+ years in the airline industry, I've traveled all over the place. Mostly stateside, but, overseas some. Some places I've traveled to for work and play: The entire East Coast, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arizona, Michigan, Canada, Switzerland, Israel, Cancun. Those are just off the top of my head.

Just to show that travel can be fun and spontaneous, my family and I went to Hell, Michigan last month. It was a fun 3 hours in that little town. Nice people and if you want, they can make anyone you want mayor for the day then impeach you at the end of the day. Cancun was an absolute blast! While we got bumped off of a couple of flights(that free thing again) we got there, stayed at a nice all inclusive resort and relaxed. We went with another couple this past February to Disney World in Florida. It was cold, but, we still had fun for a couple of days. I'll try to post pictures of some recent trips in the future.

There are alot of resources available, websites, books, etc to help the nonrever make the most of their benefits. There are discounts available at alot of places, you just have to find them. Some resources I use are: Perx.com, Cruisesonly.com, the ASU travel guide. Just calling works wonders. You never know who will give an interline discount.

In future posts I'm going to try to post video and pictures of our travels. Like I said, I hope this evolves into a great blog that can help people who don't know about all of the travel their company offers to just showing the fun you can have with it......Thanks and happy flying....Gerry