No, when you travel non-rev you’re not wearing a badge. However your boarding pass is not an actual boarding pass, it’s a standby pass. The pass has your priority class and that class tells the gate agents how you came to hold it (IE Friend of a Pilot, Friend of a United Staff Member, Family of a Pilot, etc.). They…

That’s an understatement! Every time I travel non-rev I get a talking to by the person who got me my benefits about how I need to behave - even if I’m on my 3rd flight of the month they still give me a talking to because of the horror stories they have heard at work.

They are PASS TRAVELERS! This means they fly standby at a greatly reduced rate due to holding a pass from someone who works for the airline or an affiliate airline. As part of the Pass Traveler agreement, you have to dress up to a standard that they would hold an off-duty employee to - this means clean, ironed,…