Originally Posted by Brocc15

To be completely honest, I commute (not for long yay!) so I list for JS a LOT and I have never once had a captain ask me to sit in the jumpseat because it said 1P(and yes I always check in!), and it ALWAYS says 1P, they never roll me to non-rev, not once has that ever happened to me despite that the FOM says that they will. But its definitely your prerogative as a captain to say they must sit in the jumpseat if you are concerned it will affect W&B.

Originally Posted by Big E 757

I fully understand how the system works. If I list for the jumpseat, they give me a 1P pass, then sometimes when I go to get on the airplane, they hand me a seat card, I still say hi just in case the gate agent didn't remove me from the js or for whatever reason I show up on the WDR as a js'er. I don't always trust them to take care of everything when they are often by themselves and under tremendous pressure to get the flight out on time.

As to cnb's post, a jumps eater doesn't have to occupy the jumpseat if they are a jumpseater, we often have multiple jumps eaters with 1 listed on the WDR, and they all sit in back if there are seats available.