What is ZED travel? A plain guide for new airline employees
ZED is the agreement that lets airline staff fly other airlines at reduced, distance-based fares, almost always on standby. Here is how it works.
The destination was never the problem.
Finding the path there was. InterlineConnect is an iPhone app that shows routes beyond your own airline’s network, at the connection time you set.
Early access opens soon
Private beta, iPhone only.
Routes your airline may not show you.
Each leg, where you change planes, and how long you have there, checked against the connection time you set.
Sample route.
Your airline shows you its own map.
Employer travel tools are built around their own network first. Interline and partner agreements open routes you may never have considered, across carriers, connection points and ZED fares, but little of it is visible in one place.
So places go unvisited. Not because they are out of reach, but because the path there was hard to see. What gets flown is usually the part that was easy to find.
InterlineConnect is built to make the rest visible, and to tell you what it takes to make each connection.
Search across partners, at your own connection time.
Enter an origin, a destination and a date. InterlineConnect shows multi-carrier routings, then lets you set the connection time you are comfortable with, instead of a fixed rule from one airline’s system.
On separate tickets a connection is not protected, so the standard minimum is not always enough. You decide what is comfortable, and routings that do not fit your time are hidden.
Whole trips, saved with backups.
Choose a routing and it becomes one trip, with every flight, layover and terminal change laid out together. Keep a main option and the backups beside it.
Saved trips are meant to be checked again against schedules as the date gets closer. In this beta those checks are simulated.
Field notes, kept at the connection they apply to.
Knowing a route exists is not the same as knowing how to fly it. Field notes keep what travelers have learned at the exact connection it applies to, dated, so you read it when you need it.
Notes are about connections, never about loads. The beta starts with none, and the first ones come from the people who join.
Document checks, for each stop and each passport.
A first check on visa, transit and unaccompanied minor questions for every leg and passport, shown when a routing is found, with where to confirm before you fly.
Stops we have checked name the official source and the date. Everywhere else the app says the rules are not verified yet. Rules change, so verify before you fly.
Where we are today.
What the beta is
- A private beta on iPhone, built in small rounds.
- Sample schedules. Flights come from a sample schedule dated September 9, 2026, and the date you search is not live yet.
- Document rules checked against official sources, with the date of each check.
- Not affiliated with any airline.
What the beta gets you
- A place in a small round, by invitation.
- A private TestFlight invitation from Apple, and a short note on what to try.
- A say in what gets built first.
- A personal note when there is a place for you.
Read before your next trip.
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Early access opens soon.
The beta is small and by invitation. Tell us a little about how you fly, and when there is a place for you, we will write to you.
InterlineConnect is in private beta on iPhone.