Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
He was watching me make phone calls and would say every once in a while "wow this makes no sense... I don't get it." He didn't care as much as he was a commuter.
Both the charter coordinators refused to put our names on the Gen Dec, and I had caused about as much of a fuss as I was willing to do. So, I'll be putting that in my report.
Be forewarned, it is intl military charter policy to not allow crewmembers to ride in the back when empty unless you are scheduled to deadhead on that aircraft. I'll do my part in fighting the good fight, and hopefully others will as well. Sure would have been nice to both get home to my son early as well as save the company money.
This happened to me once when I was on a C-5 crew. We were carrying a load of cargo and troops for a certain user. We had a couple extra seats and some other mil people wanted to space a on our jet. Since it was what we called a SAAM or special assigned airlift mission then I, as the aircraft commander, couldn't release those seats unless I got the permission of the user, or charter. So whatever Mil entity paid for the charter has the final say on who can ride on their plane they paid for. I doubt it was a customs issue, just an issue of finding the user and getting permission to let you guys ride on it. Sounds as if the charter was put together with the FAs deadheading, meaning they already had permission to ride on the empty plane.