Originally Posted by
givemewings
If you're here to troll you'll need to do better than that.
When they're on the aircraft, they're "ours". Pretty common turn of phrase
Not trolling! Of that I can assure you.
I agree that it’s a common turn of phrase but they are certainly “not yours”! Easy to get drawn into making rash and condescending decisions.
No one on the aircraft belongs to you and the aircraft certainly does NOT belong to you for the time that you use it. You are simply responsible for it and them (I’m certain that the insurance covers that part in legal terms). Just like you don’t belong to the company you work for (despite of what they will have you think).
Yes, you do have the final authority but that does not exclude you from bearing responsibility should your decision be erroneous, even penal in some cases.
So presuming that a human paying passenger who purchases a ticket with your airline, thus entering into an agreement of safe travel from A to B with the said company, is willingly relinquishing the rights to personal freedom for the duration of said flight is the correct “turn of phrase”, in your opinion (and others), could simply imply that you are...