Originally Posted by
dr dre
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.
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.
I'd just observe, the video "at the point it starts" shows him being belligerent and nothing of what occurred prior so it's not a complete picture. I agree you can't have pax swapping everywhere but with nearly 40 years of experience I question if this couldn't have been handled better.