Flying Non rev with Delta Airlines?

I'm fly as a Non rev with being employed with Delta Airlines. Between January and December, which months are the best and worst months to fly? I've experienced March because of Spring Break as being the worse. I believe April will be the same. What other months are bad?

Sally Field was really cute as the Flying Nun.

Avoiding peak times like school holidays, Easter Christmas etc. For December or January, I would pick January as Christmas will make it more difficult to travel then.

Delta Airlines serves many many destinations. Expect any popular place especially at peak travel times to be difficult to get FREE travel.
Your employer would rather have fare paying passengers in the seats.

Up to you to look for the flights to other destinations that are not the current hot spot of travel. And the plane has many empty seats.

Suck it up and just pay for some your travel. You DO NOT just have to go where Delta Goes. Use your FREE flights to get near a desired destination. Look for deals with other Airlines reserved for Airline staff.Might be just a poster on the wall in the staff lounge.

Get friendly with other Airlines staff and exchange buddy passes.

Up to you to search a bit and maybe take the indirect free route instead of the fast direct route that is full.

Delta-flagged aircraft fly to a total of 320 destinations serving 57 countries. How sad if destination is full and not available THERE ARE 300 others you could go.

Seriously you can fly either free or very cheaply to lots of places. PICK ONE and just go.

Sorry if you can can't get a Free ride to Hawaii at Christmas. Or Orlando for that get away to Disney's mega resort.
Go some place your friends have not gone and the hordes of tourists have not yet discovered.

You as employee can easily check where the planes go and which ones are not normally full at your desired vacation time.

THINK maybe just part of your route is near full. Your choice to just pay the fare for part of your travel and use you free amount for the rest of it.

Best and worst months? Flights inside the USA avoid times when school is out. Summer break, Winter Christmas New Years break, Spring break.Spring break is not the same days at every Campus. Check dates for both your departure place and destination place.
Things like some special event or local festival. The state fair, the Superbowl, The Olympics and so on. MOST three day weekends.

Be flexible in your your travel day. Usually easiest to get flights Tuesday Wednesdays and Thursdays.

You are allowed if the situation happens to get a Free ride in one direction and just pay for the other direction.
As you are non revenue you are not guaranteed a seat and do not have some next flight priority in case of things like a diversion or cancellation during a storm. One reason you do not Aim for last possible flight to return to work.

Do your research and search out from your base the flights that are not full and from those destinations the next legs of interest to you. You can have some very cheap travel adventures if you are willing to look at more than just a few popular destinations the masses go to.

For your purposes easiest travel time Mid January to March Avoid Easter week.

April is not bad and the first part of May. Avoid June July August and First week or two of September.
September, October and November not too bad up until about December 15
Avoid Thanksgiving weekend.

It is a big Airline and a huge planet. You have a chance to see lots of it for a cheap price.

Do not limit yourself to a few popular places. That are hard to get a Free ride to.

Summer months and anytime during the holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas are bad times to fly non-rev. Where you are going is also important. If you want to fly to Florida during the winter months, expect flights to be kind of full too. When my mom worked for Delta, she was able to check the loads on the flights she was interested in getting us on. Then she would decide if it was worth putting down our names to fly as non-rev. Just know that flights are fuller nowadays and if you do fly non-rev, you really have to be flexible with your travel because anything can happen. You can be bumped if someone buys a ticket last minute or if bad weather cancels your flight and you have to scramble to find another way to get to where you need to go.

I suggest you look at January - early March as well as late April - mid May. After Labor Day through mid-November is another block of time I would think flights are bit lighter as school is back in session so fewer families flying.

Early May is a good time as the kids are still in school and the weather has turned nice in most parts of the world. Similarly, late September when the kids are back in school and the weather hasn't turned bad yet.