Originally Posted by hockeypilot44

If true, that captain over-stepped his bounds. I have taken the flight attendant jumpseat to get other pilots on. I have also turned it down. I have also been told by the captain to take it. I do it, but it ****es me off. The flight attendant jumpseat is available to us to get ourselves on, not to get outside airline personnel on. It is the Delt pilots choice whether he wants to or not. For me, it depends what type of plane it is and where jumpseat is located. I will not take jumpseat that is directly facing passengers. It makes me uncomfortable to sit face to face with a stranger for hours. The point is it should be my choice to give up my cockpit jumpseat if I have it reserved. There should be 0 repercussions and I shouldn't be made out to be a bad guy if I don't want to sit in the flight attendant jumpseat. Most guys that get ****ed getting left behind aren't even allowed to sit in a flight attendant jumpseat on their own airline so they are asking for a favor that they can't reciprocate.

I was just left behind on Southwest because it was weight restricted on a 600 mile flight. Go figure. Not even sure how that's possible on a 737. No hard feelings.