Originally Posted by
das Uber Soldat
Do you believe operational personnel are required to comply with the policy and procedures of their ops manual? We can wrap this whole thing up right now with an answer to that question. I'm all ears.
So,
my question is you say the operators OM's require passengers to stay in their assigned seats until after takeoff. Now I've no inherent problem with that concept if it's
not a one-for-one swap, but if it
is one-for-one and mutually agreed, then personally believe it should have been ignored in this event and all others, for the reasons others have put forward. If CC want to make an issue of it, why do they not cross-check seat assignment vs photo ID for
every flight? Short answer is, (you know, and
I know) they don't and 99.95% of the time, they couldn't care less anyway unless someone's gone to an unoccupied seat with the potential W&B issues that could result, slim as that chance may be.
But...
Go back a few years to the brouhaha where a male passenger (and
more than one...) was moved
from his assigned seat because he was sitting next to an unaccompanied minor - presumably the manifest wasn't updated, given it was the CC that ordered the move immediately before pushback, so why would
that instance be acceptable - as it's "company policy to order such a move based solely on gender" - yet this one, is not?
To me, this particular instance smacks of the CC trying to emulate Cartman,
"You will respect my authoreteh!" - and FWIW,
I would challangebthe CC if they tried the similar thing on
me, if I was travelling. Yes, my kids could sit next to the KRviatrix with me being 4,5,10 rows away -
but in an emergency,
particularly having regards to an evacuation, there's
no way she could reasonably get herself
and the two kids off the aircraft. But so long as I'm in my assigned seat, that's all good, right?