Originally Posted by
John Carr
Well, that’s true also.
There was one occasion where I had the JS, another offline pilot had already gone down before me. The agent said I couldn’t go down. I said “yes I can”.
Well, she had an absolute fecal fit, called the supervisor, threatened to call security, etc.
When I wrote the JS committe (among others) about it , they weren’t really surprised.
Grabted, it was an offline pilot in this situation. But don’t EVER doubt an agents ability to take their “authority” waaaaaay too far sometimes;
https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/a...p/t-58338.html
And hey, it was before you (and me) got to be in the show as evidenced by the first reply

Sorry John, clicked on reply to Grumble rather than yours...since both talking about, credit where due