Airline employees struggle to get flights (The Arizona Republic)

Endless hours in standby hell. Out-of-the-way connections and dead-of-the-night flights. Missed work or family events while marooned at the airport. Airline employees, for whom free flights are a prime reason to be in the business, call them non-rev nightmares - short for non-revenue. And they say they're recurring more than ever this summer because of airlines' jammed flights.