(This is in no way aimed at anyone on this thread in case your wondering!)
It does annoy me when pax think they know better either because they are regular air travellers or whatever. In this case I mean the issue with moving pax for trim purposes.
I'm cabin crew and work on the ever-so-trim-sensitive Dash Q400. When the loads are light it is SO important that pax are sat in the correct bays otherwise as Maud Charlie says above you can run into some real flight controlability issues.
At our airline the No. 1 has to go down the cabin with a small pad marked with the seats and bays, and the total no. of pax for each bay has to be written down and handed the the captain to check with the loadsheet prior to departure. When the loads are lighter you find that a lot of pax think 'Oh, think I'll sit there instead if that's everyone on board now!' without asking first.
This of course means we then have to begin checking boarding passes of every pax and asking them to re-take their original seat. When I explain to them the reason why they have to move they laugh in your face and say such things as 'I've never heard of anything so stupid in my life!', 'But this a/c is empty!' and the classic 'I can't see how moving a few people makes any difference!'.
People don't seem to realise that every a/c is different and we are not just moving them around because we think it's a fun way to p155 them off!
Anyone else on here regularly have the same problems and if so do you have anything quick and simple to explain to them in few words why they need to move?
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