Originally Posted by
USMCFDX
Horse handlers accompany the animals, there are not jumpseaters. Lots of documentation goes with these flights. Not sure about a non US citizen, but it is probably ok. They do not ride in the cockpit.
Well, there's lots of documentation that can go along with a jumpseater as well.
Besides, on a widebody aircraft, wouldn't the jumpseater also not be riding in the cockpit?
But yeah, the logic makes sense. It's probably "ok" to let a foreign horse handler on board the aircraft behind the door, but not a U.S. airline pilot who has been subjected to a 10 year background check and has information in a database to verify his identity. Whenever I used the JS privilege on a passenger carrier I was "behind the door" also.
Don't get your panites in a bind. I'm NOT flaming you, or your company. Just seems weird that with all we went through after 9/11 to get the JS's back as well as CASS, that somebody who is not even a U.S. airline pilot nor in the CASS system, nor an employee of FedEx is allowed to be on board the aircraft.