The bizarre thing is she commented on the way home how she hoped to get a flight deck jump seat on her return commute to Europe..
It beggers belief!!
I was once berated by a stewardess for refusing to guarantee her 'partner' the jump seat if it were necessary, they were both on holiday and she had a confirmed seat to get back home to work the following day, but he was on standby.
My wife was accompanying me, using a staff ticket that I had purchased, but she told me that there were 5 seats on the flight deck and so I could take my wife and her partner. I explained that I had a supernumary crew member under training, i.e 4 crew and my wife, but she was having none of that, her partner was also 'staff' so had priority over my wife - she said. ( 9/11 was but a gleam in someones' eyes at that time, airline travel was much less regulated )
In the event both got a pax. seat - no problem - but it was her attitude that surprised me, with people like that is it any wonder that opinions are formed ?
Who would you have left behind ?