Non-Rev Lounge

We meet the famous Captain Aux! Aviation Captain, bush pilot, travel enthusiast, pilot mentor, blogger and published  author! Really, is there anything this man cannot do?A love story ❤️His career as an author Boeing or Airbus?Cochise College like prior guest, Kayla The PilotHow he started as an Alaskan bush pilotcapnaux.comAviation Dad and MomNon reving during CovidFlying for a Flagship airline Philippine AirlinesForeign carrier service vs US ServiceStaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.Use the Promo code ST10NONREVLOUNGE  https://share.stafftraveler.com/nrl-esim✈StaffTraveler is a great app that can assist your non-rev travels! Use it to find the loads for your non-rev travel! Use this to sign up:https://stafftraveler.com/nonrevlounge

This week the crew talks about a nuber of topics.  Sorry for the delayed show Tyler was busy traveling! Hence the name of this podcast!! Hee hee!Lara whines about doing domestic flights as if she is an international 👸Happy 10 year anniversary to Monique!!Why Tyler will NEVER retire! JetBlue has lounges??Chester (Alaska) marries Pualani (Hawaiian)We talk mergers!!Prospect, the company,  ensures our wheelchair passengers can travel!Phoenix uses a dry rub….. for cleaning our planes!! 🤔Listener lettersDayton Air Force Museum is a must see for every Avgeek!Thanks Sarah, Chaz, Daniel, Robert and Jesse!The top 5 airports in the USADon’t forget that your airline DEPENDENTS  can now have their own StaffTraveler accounts! 🙌🏆Also book your next cruise or hotel with StaffTraveler! You’ll find the BEST rates! StaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.Use the Promo code ST10NONREVLOUNGE  https://share.stafftraveler.com/nrl-esim✈StaffTraveler is a great app that can assist your non-rev travels! Use it to find the loads for your non-rev travel! Use this to sign up:https://stafftraveler.com/nonrevlounge

Kayla joins the crew to talk about her life as Non Rev.  She talkes about her flight school and about recently aging out of her flight benefits. Kayla’s parents are prior America West Airlines! US Airways was a bad mergerFirst flight at 6 months of age ❤️Kayla went on her ATL overnight!Now today Kayla is STILL going with her mom on her overnights! Kayla’s sister got a lay flat seat BEFORE Kayla, who is arguably the more Avgeek of the two of them! Kayla’s dad believes in her 💕Cochise CollegeMoving to Kentucky to teach student pilots!Kayla has a funeral for her flight benefits when she aged out! 😫 Everyone wore black! It actually was Friday the 13th! 😱Kayla has a farewell tour! Once again there are TWO Penn Stations!Follow Kayla on Instragram @Kayla.the.pilotStaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.Use the Promo code ST10NONREVLOUNGE  https://share.stafftraveler.com/nrl-esim✈StaffTraveler is a great app that can assist your non-rev travels! Use it to find the loads for your non-rev travel! Use this to sign up:https://stafftraveler.com/nonrevlounge

This week the 3 of us talked about Tyler's NonRev holiday weekend trip to Germany. And we piggyback off the Flying Smarter Podcast about JD Power passenger satisfaction report and what things we like with travel and NonReving!! Planning a meet up!Tyler REALLY has traveled bunches this year! What tea does he have on wife Katie that she allows this?Where on the aircraft did Tyler & Katie sit compared to THEIR two boys?Yet more water park stories!Germany = CastlesLara gives her advice on sleeping again with jet lagNon rev nightmare coming homeTyler becomes a name dropper!We talk about the Flying Smarter podcast. Andrew (the host who has been on our podcast) talks to the JD Power Award people! We then do our own 🤣StaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.Use the Promo code ST10NONREVLOUNGE  https://share.stafftraveler.com/nrl-esim✈StaffTraveler is a great app that can assist your non-rev travels! Use it to find the loads for your non-rev travel! Use this to sign up:https://stafftraveler.com/nonrevlounge

Dorkfest!!  This year Tyler is the only one of the three of us to attend this annual Avgeek gathering at LAX airport! Tyler goes outside of his comfort zone DJ Spotter”s cousin Devon takes a train from SEA to LAX!! Lara did some recon and it takes 34 hours and he had a bedroom! Tyler gets a concourse shout out from a listener! Monique and Lara give their weak a$$ excuses why they didn’t attend the Mecca for Avgeeks.🙄Greg Peterson, an ancillary member of The Next Trip Podcast, went to Victorville Tyler’s constant flex about having his Hyatt Globalist!Tyler talks about all the fun people he saw! Tyler and his dad do an epic boys trip visiting various baseball stadiums and watching games!Lara learns how difficult it is to deplane passengers What do four S”s on a boarding pass mean? SSSSStaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.Use the Promo code ST10NONREVLOUNGE  https://share.stafftraveler.com/nrl-esim✈StaffTraveler is a great app that can assist your non-rev travels! Use it to find the loads for your non-rev travel! Use this to sign up:https://stafftraveler.com/nonrevlounge

Lucky for us that 🔥Dane The Dentist/Ramper and Rachel The Flight Attendant/Health Coach with  the nice butt, stuck around for another fun episode! We were having so much fun 🙌Lots of Pro Tips in this episode!We discuss airline employee cartels! Paying for shifts🎶 Get your money for nothing, and your chicks fo free🎶Lara doesn’t want your crappy domestic trips….but feel free to send a dic$ pic 🤣Tyler Rants (again 🙄) oh, and so do the rest of us! Passenger Shaming incidents NEVER snap your fingers at Rachel! 😡Pro Tip: Or any other flight attendant!Rachel has a joke! Where would you travel if your airline gave you two positive space passes?What travel advice would our panel give others!!!Pro Tip: Fairbanks, Alaska is the best place to view the Northern Lights 🤯What is something our panel has learned this last year while traveling?This section is all about Pro Tips!StaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.Use the Promo code ST10NONREVLOUNGE  https://share.stafftraveler.com/nrl-esim✈StaffTraveler is a great app that can assist your non-rev travels! Use it to find the loads for your non-rev travel! Use this to sign up:https://stafftraveler.com/nonrevlounge

Our guest Diana is a full-time nurse and a part-time ramp worker.  She is Tyler's coworker and used to be Katie’s (Tyler's Wife) co-worker and definitely she prefers Katie.  🤣She talked about her love for traveling and said she would do the airline job for free if it meant she got her flight benefits!! Diana is just the cutest ramper Lara has ever seen!Two jobs! Nurse at the Children’s Hospital and a ramper! Main line transfer! But no vacay baby 🏖️Loving those flight benefits!Not every beautiful woman on the ramp is gay! Loves traveling, the cultures, the people…There’s ⚖️ between two jobs!Travel groups are the way to go!! Make decisions for you!Group tours need a debrief session!Kenya! 🇰🇪 Tents in the savanna!International trips: Bali, Cape Town!Swimming with 🦈Do local tours so you get told what’s really happening!Spontaneity is the key 🔑 for all of us non revs!!Where to next?? Prague and Zurich solo! Don’t book your hotel until inflight! Jordan 🇯🇴 and Petra! Punked a friend story!This girl has traveled 🙌StaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.Use the Promo code ST10NONREVLOUNGE  https://share.stafftraveler.com/nrl-esim✈StaffTraveler is a great app that can assist your non-rev travels! Use it to find the loads for your non-rev travel! Use this to sign up:https://stafftraveler.com/nonrevlounge

Did Dane get arrested, you bet he did.  Was it in a foreign country Yep.  Everyone is going to love this episode!Dentist, ramper, photographer, traveler and easy on the eye TOO!What is a seasonal employee?Pay load optimized, over grossed and weight restricted mean the same thing!Drove by himself through Austria 🇦🇹 and the  Italian alps 🇮🇹 so he could take some phenomenal photos 🙌 while hiking!Airline friends fly in for dental work!Lara says Dane needs to add Botox to his practice! 💉Flew to Munich to see T Swift! Octoberfest!! Go authentic in your attire!Anne Frank museum, cheese and beer boat tour! Book early as Anne Frank sells out quickly! PRO TIP:  When something is sold out, try a 3rd party vendor like Trip Advisor or Viator, etc…Day trip to Oregon for photography!Yep! The embarrassing story is the arrest! 🤣🤣🤣StaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.Use the Promo code ST10NONREVLOUNGE  https://share.stafftraveler.com/nrl-esim✈StaffTraveler is a great app that can assist your non-rev travels! Use it to find the loads for your non-rev travel! Use this to sign up:https://stafftraveler.com/nonrevlounge

This week we have Brenna Join us to talk about some of her travels.  She grew up her entire life as a Non Rev and has seen the world! 🌎 Brenna’s parents are prior America West Airlines! Dad is an Airbus Capt and retired military pilot. Mom is a retired AWA CSR and Flight Attendant.Studied Global Studies, duh! Got a Master’s at Thunderbird!Peru, Greece, Macedonia, Brussels for school abroad!Water taxis are the same as regular taxi in Sydney.Jet lag is real 😱River Cruise with her mom down the Danube.Ama Waterways is the name of the cruise line purchased through Perx ( don’t forget your nonrevlounge30 discount!River cruises are more intimate than the giant ocean liners.30 plus countries she’s traveledAirport Proficiency TestStaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.Use the Promo code ST10NONREVLOUNGE  https://share.stafftraveler.com/nrl-esim✈StaffTraveler is a great app that can assist your non-rev travels! Use it to find the loads for your non-rev travel! Use this to sign up:https://stafftraveler.com/nonrevlounge

We meet Rachel a flight attendant for a US carrier. She ZEDs everywhere!  Rachel speaks French and has been to Paris many times. She decided she wanted to go to the Olympics!Someone pushed Rachel into applying for a flight attendant position. She applied to appease them!She was meant to be an FA!Oh, to be young and beautiful! The pilot saw her and re-opened the door to put Rachel on!How does your airline hire such funny people?Rachel is a BIG fan of our wonderful sponsor StaffTraveler (yes, we ARE sucking up! 🤣)How Rachel got a Premium Plus seat to Paris! Trying to get tickets to Olympic eventsConnecting with an old hostel friend at the OlympicsRachel’s embarrassing story! Find  Rachel on IG at: @rhutchi5YouTube: @RachelHutchi5StaffTraveler Is offering a 10% code for any of our listeners who buy their eSIM.Use the Promo code ST10NONREVLOUNGE  https://share.stafftraveler.com/nrl-esim✈StaffTraveler is a great app that can assist your non-rev travels! Use it to find the loads for your non-rev travel! Use this to sign up:https://stafftraveler.com/nonrevlounge