Post: #1

Basically my friend made me a companion on Continental, so now i can fly all over the world for free or cheap. I own a few rooms in a resort in costa rica, they are junior suites with jacuzzi bath tubs. Www://hotelmontecampana.com

I am interested in swapping with someone, or even someone letting me use a room where they live in exchange for future use at my resort. I have done this with other friends, in Colombia for example. I am more interested in asia, NJ/NY, Brasil, Italy, but am open to anywhere as I like to travel. For the right swap I might include a vehicle at my resort. It's an hour from the beach, but it's an amazing place in Birri Heredia. Temp stays 68 at night to a high of 85 during the day.

Post: #2

(03-14-2012 02:41 PM)clr Wrote:  Basically my friend made me a companion on Continental, so now i can fly all over the world for free or cheap.

Not to derail your thread, but can you bust this out on another threat?

How did you do that?

Post: #3

Well I have known him for 10 years. Just working aroun people in the airline industry I made a lot of friends

Post: #4

(03-14-2012 02:43 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

(03-14-2012 02:41 PM)clr Wrote:  Basically my friend made me a companion on Continental, so now i can fly all over the world for free or cheap.

Not to derail your thread, but can you bust this out on another threat?

How did you do that?

Airline employees have various types of "passes" that they can assign. The system is slightly different depending on the airline, but basically you can put companions on your "account" and they can fly at reduced rates. I know people that have this arrangement with employees of Delta. There are parent passes (a parent can fly domestically for free, and internationally at reduced rates. The charges are deducted from the employee's check, and whoever the pass is assigned to reimburses the employee). There are companion or buddy passes also, who fly domestically for like $50 domestically, but they pay by credit card. International is reduced also, but not as much as parent passes.

Post: #5

Not sure about Continental, but I know on some airlines your going to get bottom of the bottom of the standby list. 10 hours in an airport is one thing, 10 hours and coming back the next day is not cool.

Post: #6

(03-14-2012 07:15 PM)babelfish669 Wrote:  Not sure about Continental, but I know on some airlines your going to get bottom of the bottom of the standby list. 10 hours in an airport is one thing, 10 hours and coming back the next day is not cool.

Yes...I forgot to add that. You're on standby. Depending on the type of pass you're on, you get better seats. On Delta, a parent pass gets you business class if there's an available seat there. You're also very high on the standby list, whereas other passes don't have the same priority, so you're lower on the list. Otherwise, it's whatever is available in coach. They always try to give you the best seat they can, because you are flying on the pass of an employee. You book your flight on the employee site, and it shows you the standby list that only employees have access to. You can always see where on the list you are, and can see what how many seats are already booked ont the flight, etc. or if it's already overbooked. You can pick the flight that you are most likely to get a seat on. Paying/revenue customers always get priority, so if a flight fills up or is overbooked, you automatically get put on the standby list for the next available flight. Also on Delta, if you're on a parent pass there's no waiting on the regular security line. You get priority. I know a guy that has a companion pass on United, and their planes have both first AND business class, so he almost always gets a seat in one or the other. Delta only has business, about 16 seats, so depending on the flight, it's harder to get a seat up there.

Post: #7

Hey guys I appreciate all the thoughts on it but I've been doing it for years I'm just back on Continental as a companion you're pretty high and it's not like riding a buddy pass your much higher on the list and in my experience the odds of me getting on are about 95%