Originally Posted by
Floyd
Not my idea but something to think about. At United we've been trying to educate gate agents that it's the Captain who determines the recipient of the jumpseat. Gate agents are to send all potential jumpseat pilots down to the airplane.
The gate agents were unfortunately brought into this as the arbiter of who rides the jumpseat. We may have taken a couple steps backwards.
Very true and sad that we have to unscrew the pooch again because of a few cPT who shirked their responsibility to control their JS.