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[donnykey]

Mardhi is quite correct ..I was on staff travel from Australia for a few years and was lucky enough that my "buddy" had 22 years service as a flight attendant and i was always up the top of the list for priority....one time there were over 30 staff travellers waiting for a flight and i was number 2 on the list ....well they took only one !!....seniority and length of service are a big factor....a tip is to buy a staff travel business class ticket which pushes you up the priority list and if you in fact you end up flying economy you get a refund....Cheers Donnykey

[kliome]

Ask Dirty Mike about staff travelling.

DM was stuck in Bangkok 3 weeks waiting to get on a flight home, nearly lost his job, had to sleep in a 300bht a night BKK dump, and in the end had to borrow money to buy a new flight, think it was 20,000bht.

[SwineCanine]

Always good to have a plan! And can always be modified.

Think the key issue is how much continuous free time is available rather than the free/discounted staff travel. So if you can take off from the middle of July to the middle of August and work from the middle of August to the middle of September that would give you six trips to the LOS a year.

If I could have worked that schedule at my old job I would have never quit. They had a 60% workk schedule but that was three days a week; useless for me.

Good luck bro!

[FatboyUK]

Well, the plan is getting closer, as I have just finished my last day as an easyJet crew member.

Emotional, but now on to the next step........