Originally Posted by
Firefighter
You, erm, failed to acknowledge the entire paragraph where I referenced that this would've (and was) the correct course of action, but unfortunately missed on this occasion.
Okay, let me be more precise, the part I object to is this
Despite the crew seats in the galley not being available, there are crew jump seats in the centre of the aircraft on a B757. The parents could have easily sat here for the duration of the flight if they wanted to, there was no-one forcing them to sit on the floor. But that doesn't look quite as good on TV, does it?
That is a disgraceful slur on the passengers, they were innocent victims of airline incompetence.