<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (29Palms @ Nov 3 2007, 02:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
Ouch. I was doing the same thing, taking the money up front, but then my airlines added a payment by credit card option you can enter. So if the buddy pass traveler gives me his credit card number, I just put it in the section so he gets billed. Don&#39;t know why your airline doesn&#39;t do this. It works real well. Saves us the hassle of taking money up front or getting deducted. No buddy can fly on first class at all in my airline. Only way possible if the buddy is flying under my pass classification WITH ME. Domestic or Internationally. (How does a buddy pass traveler get first class on your airline without you flying with them?) Buddy passes at my airlines travel SA5C which is about the lowest classification I can think of. Aint no first class in those letter/numbers combination. I&#39;m like you. I only give them out to family members not covered under my eligible pass riders.
I think you must mean that buddy pass riders can travel domestically IN COACH without being accompanied by the employee or eligible pass rider. However, while traveling overseas destinations, they must be accompanied. And when they get ACCOMPANIED, then they usually fly on some vacation pass along with the employees pass classification, therefore, can ride up front. (Maybe not airlines are the same, but this is how we at CO do it.)[/b]
No I meant what I said. Buddy pass riders can get domestic First unaccompanied if it is available. Internationally they must be accompanied to get First, they can go in Coach unaccompanied, or Business unaccompanied if they meet the age requirements. The price is the same as an economy ID90 regardless of the class they get seated in or whether or not they are traveling with the employee. They do go at a lower boarding priority if unaccompanied though.