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NEW RETIREE PASS PROGRAM RE-VISITED

Enhanced Retiree S3A Priority Travel Days

 ​​Based on direct feedback from employees and retirees, Delta has introduced an annual allotment of S3A priority flight days for Delta retirees and survivors. This S3A priority is based on your pass eligibility date and will move you and your eligible pass riders using S3A ahead of all S3B passengers on the standby list. 

Eligibility 

Six (6) S3A flight days have been made available to current and future pass travel eligible Delta retirees, survivors and each of their eligible pass riders. 

Who is eligible for S3A Priority Flight Days?  

·       Retiree 

·       Survivors who meet eligibility requirements 

·       Spouse/Domestic Partner/Travel Companion 

·       Dependent children  

 

Who is not eligible for S3A Priority Flight Days? 

·       Nondependent children 

·       Parents 

 

S3A Priority Flight Days 

Effective October 14, 2020, all current and future pass travel eligible Delta retirees, survivors and their eligible pass riders received an annual allotment of six (6) S3A priority flight days each year on your pass eligibility date (unused S3A Flight Days cannot be carried over). For those days you want to enhance your chances of clearing the standby list, you can use the S3A standby code. Prior approval is not required, just save this standby code for when you really need it. 

Note: For employees that participated in the 2020 Voluntary Departure Program and are eligible for retiree pass travel privileges, S3A passes will be available beginning one year after the retirement or separation date and after completing the one year of active employee pass travel privileges that are part of that program. Employees that retire in the future will be eligible for S3A passes on their retirement effective date. 

What happens if the S3A Priority Flight Days are exceeded by any pass rider? 

If a pass rider exceeds allotments, the primary pass rider will be penalized $150 per day exceeded for domestic travel and $300 per day exceeded for transoceanic travel. Unauthorized use of S3A Priority Flight Days may also result in suspension of pass privileges and/or administrative action, up to and including termination of pass travel privileges. 

Standby Priority on Connection Carriers  

Boarding priority for  employees and their eligible pass riders varies depending on the Delta Connection carrier. Overall, Delta employees travel at a higher boarding priority than Delta Connection employees on mainline flights and at an elevated boarding priority on certain Delta Connection flights. These pages describe the pass privileges and boarding priority that Delta, Delta Connection, Regional Elite and former DGS employees receive on Delta Connection carriers. Click on each carrier below to learn about their boarding priority. 

·       Endeavor 

·       SkyWest 

·       Republic Airline (formerly Shuttle America) ​

Date of Travel 

On the date of travel, S3A can be used by a retiree, survivor or their eligible pass riders, to move ahead of S3B pass riders on the standby list.  

When using an S3A flight day, eligible pass riders will be added to the standby list above other S3B pass riders and among Endeavor and Delta Private Jets pass riders who are also eligible for S3A. Clearing of nonrevenue passengers with S3A standby code is based on pass eligibility date. 

 

Flight Days 

A flight day is a calendar day and allotments are based on scheduled departure time. On each allotted flight day, you may depart on as many flights as you wish. For all scheduled departures made on the same calendar day your allotment will be reduced by one flight day. However, some destinations require more than one calendar day to reach. In these cases where you continue to travel in one direction to your final destination, but flights are scheduled to depart on two consecutive calendar days, only one flight day will be decremented. 

Example: You're using an S3A standby code between Honolulu and Orlando with a connection in Salt Lake City: 

·       The originating flight departs Honolulu on 01 May at 11 p.m. and arrives in Salt Lake City at 9 a.m. on 02 May. 

·       The connecting flight departs Salt Lake City on 02 May at 10 a.m. and arrives in Orlando at 4:30 p.m. 

·       Since the travel between Honolulu and Orlando requires more than 1 flight day and occurred on two consecutive dates, only one S3A​ flight day would be decremented from your allotment. 

Flight days do not carry over from year to year; they must be used within the anniversary ​year in which they are allotted. 

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