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SEA 737
I always get a manifest and I'm going to start confronting them every time.
That's what I do.
Its rare that a jumpseater doesn't "check-in" with the cockpit but when it happens I always ask the flight attendant to have the guy come up and introduce himself.
Seems to be caused most often by the automatic "flow-back" situation when the computer/gate agent actually prints out a boarding pass with a seat assignment
No big deal. Its usually a younger guy who is not as ingrained with the traditional protocol like the old timers. When they get that boarding pass with a seat assignment it causes them to kinda switch out of "jumpseat" mode and just act like a regular pax.