Originally Posted by
mexipilot84
About a year ago I was in uniform going home on a revenue ticket and paid for the upgrade to business select to board first on A1-15 and I got yelled at by the FA for sitting at the exit and row and told me he was going to tell the captain. Told him I had a business select ticket, he kept at it until it finally dawned on him I paid for it. I guess it’s always assumed if you’re in uniform you’re non-reving. Didn’t expect that at all.
Exactly the tribal knowledge non-rev SWA bologna I’m referring to. Even IF you were only flying standby and not on a paid ticket, how are you supposed to know that you shouldn’t sit in the exit row?
We have our own “special” way of doing everything

and expect OAL to know about it. Dumb.....