Originally Posted by
TimmyTee
Other punters on board said he did nothing wrong (other than the seat issue)
The passengers don’t know aviation law so can’t be the judge on whether or not this guy did something wrong, which he did. Firstly he failed to comply with the lawful directions of the cabin crew on what seat he needed to sit in. Secondly he failed to comply with the police’s instructions to come with them off the aircraft.
Passengers don’t run the cabin and don’t arrange their own seat swaps.
Originally Posted by
runway16
Perhaps Jet* should have said that it is important that a passenger assigned to a seat for take off and landing is on the passenger/seat manifest. If there is a prang they can know the details of passenger XX in seat YY. After take off then a seat rearrangement can be arranged.
I saw no mention of that by the cabin crew person. Did the cabin crew person know that?
It could have been weight and balance, or just the fact he swapped all on his own. Whatever it is, the CC’s instructions are lawful.
We also don’t know what preceded that conversation because the video recording only starts from when the CC told the guy he wasn’t going to be allowed to fly. As the video shows he is clearly being belligerent, whatever the cause, and is probably not going to comply with other instructions from the crew inflight.