We've had similar issues here at Colgan with CAL FAs trying to jumpseat on us. We do not have a reciprocal FA jumpseat agreement with CAL. There are a couple of commuters that try to jumpseat rather than nonrev to save the money. The captain I was flying with asked me what I thought, I told him I thought it should be up to the flight attendant, as it's not my toes being stepped on here. The FA agreed, on the condition that the CAL FA would contact her jumpseat coordinator and tell them she was denied and that we need to work out an agreement.

You get more flies with honey...

(to save the comments later - we do not have an extra FA jumpseat, I'm just talking about jumpseat privileges for a cabin seat. Also, continental has not purchased the seats on our saabs, we only get paid for the seats that have butts in them. I believe it's different on our Qs.)