Point taken about being rude. And good on you for bum covering, if its in writing that the company allows it, you do it. If its not in writing you are still out on a limb if anything goes wrong.
Well a no names no flight numbers ASR is to highlight a practise to the training deptment with nobody in the firing line for a bollocking. It makes the company make a formal declaration on policy. I suppose it all depends on how the ASR system works in your company. My types cabin book states ABP seats and thats it. And the ASR wouldn't be witched hunted, it would go to the powers that be and either the book changed or FCI and CCI issued to inform everone what the policy is. I can't really think of any matter that needs clarity where a ASR would be heavy handed. Maybe FC are just more used to using it day to day. Its all bum covering.
My reason for saying no is that you never know when you will need the ABP's in the seats. I know there is a very very very tiny chance of something happening but you never know when its going to happen. The risk to everyone in the back trying to move someone with reduced mobility from one seat to another with the deck at 25 degrees nose down and turning. Sods law states that all the tolleys will be out as well, is to me unexceptable as it is easly negated by not putting them in the seat.
Then the customer might refuse to move as the aircraft attitude is well outside the normal experenced as pax. Then what are you going to do to shift a 20 stone 6'4" bloke with a gammy leg and a white knuckle death grip on the arm rest. Thats proberly an easy one. A 10 stone granny who hates flying and has just had a heart attack with said death grip on the arm rests. All this when you have just stowed all the trolleys, dealing with the rest of the pax, tens mins to landing on the PA, with the ever present glow of a uncontained engine fire out the window. I suppose if you were lucky it would be on the side they were sat at and you could leave them there.
I would be interested to hear a CC point of view on this. If I am being overdramatic and it really isn't a problem I am quite willing to revise my views.