Originally Posted by
DLpilot
Completely wrong. A nonrev has flight benefits bestowed by the company. A flight crew has no say in whether or not a nonrev rides unless that nonrev is creating a disturbance. It is compeletly out of line to deny a nonrev from boarding just because they did not speak. You need to look up policies about company rules instead of enforcing your own.
Uh yes, a flight crew (Captain) does have say in who gets on his/her aircraft and who doesn't. If you want to get extreme about it, then even a flight attendant can deny boarding if that person feels unsafe. Of course that is an extreme comparison in relation to this thread but it's there. Believe it or not, out of all of the say that a captain has had stripped from them over the course of time in this industry, it's one of the decisions that a captain still has. What the captain did with that non rev that was hopping a ride could be seen in two ways: right or wrong. I'm not saying that I would've done the same, I'm just saying that based on how the whole situation went down, I can understand why he refused her a ride. Call it what you want. I don't know about your company but companies that I have worked for say nothing about "non rev" policies. Perhaps you should look that up while you're at it.