Why Moral Suxs At Aa

[Wretched Wrench]

. Technically, riding in a cabin seat on a js boarding pass is a "serious" offense which applies only to flight attendants because we are the only ones who can ride the js.

Ummm...........I have seen that offense commited by pilots, too. Fairly often, in fact, since forever. In one particular case, I was to fly to SLC, I believe, out of SAN, to fix an airplane, and a pilot on a jump seat auth requested a first class seat, taking the last seat on the airplane. I did not make the flight to fix the airplane and the s*&% hit the fan.

But usually, nothing was ever noted.

Another time, my wife and I didn't get on a flight to Fiji out of HNL because of the same thing. We had the last two seats on the plane, in first class, and they took our passes back and put a pilots wife in one of the seats, leaving the one beside her empty for him to occupy later, after he had left his jumpseat in the cockpit.

 

[jimntx]

I'm not surprised, but what I was referring to was not just the occupation of the cabin seat. For those of us who have less than 5 years, if we take a js boarding pass we do not have to pay the service charges even if there is an empty cabin seat (policy changed 01DEC04). If we then occupy a cabin seat which we would otherwise be paying svc charges for, the company deems that theft of services; unless, we can prove we were instructed to occupy the seat by a working crew member.

 

[kirkpatrick]

Back when I was commuting from NYC to STL I was politely asked a number of times if I would mind taking a jumpseat to allow another nonrev, one without jumpseat privileges, to get on the plane. It works both ways.

MK