Originally Posted by
dalad
Sink, I love ya man, but I got denied a J/S I had reserved when a DH pilot showed nup and took it before I showed at the gate to get a REVENUE pax on. The agent told me it was her JS, until I called Crew Scheduling and had her set straight by a scheduling supervisor.
I get it, dalad. I'm not trying to promote this is as routine. This discussion has highlighted the pitfalls of giving up the PS seat. Your example, and other examples, show that there are still too many egregious errors committed by gate agents.
I was mostly thinking along the lines of an exception such as this:
Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
I've only done it once- I walked up to the gate house and made sure there were no jumpseaters, and then verified the captain was aware of the situation was ok with it