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DAL 88 Driver
Attention former CRJ 50 seat drivers: Quick question. Have you ever heard of being weight restricted to the extent that you had to go out with 6 empty seats? The segment was PIT-ATL, today. Wife has a friend on a buddy pass (yeah, I know, we tried to talk her out of doing that) and the agent told her she couldn't get on the flight because of weight restrictions. I checked and the flight went out with 6 empty seats. What do you think? Legit?
Possible, depends on how far the alternate is and how many bags. Also depends on the agent, maybe she didn't want to wait for the crew to crunch the numbers.
Also, I know my former company (comair) would send a max pax load to the gate agents. It usually accounted for way more bags and we could usually take more pax than listed.
However, sometimes gate agents don't listen to us. When I was JFK based me and a DL were trying to jumpseat to dtw on comair. WX was garbage and the alternate was Toledo...There were also 4 revenue standby's waiting for a seat and 5 empty seats. The gate agent wouldn't board any of us because of the max pax load that she had on our computer even though operations was on the radio saying the CA said he could take a full load plus a js. Eventually the CA said he wasn't leaving til he saw the JS'er. She started swearing in front of gate 25 and she begrudgingly filled up the plane with all of us. That was pretty much standard for JFK.