Originally Posted by
neville_nobody
On a long haul flight there may not be room and to be fair I think asking people to sit in a jumpseat on a 13+ hours flight is probably stretching the friendship.
On saying that though the senior management types see it below them to do such a thing.
Offered the jumpseat twice on domestic sectors to executive types once on a horror day huge delays across all airlines, both times they refused, blocking a seat for a full fare paying passenger.
When it's days like that you see senior management types true colours. Duty Travel staff paxing in jumpseats to give their seats to full fare passengers, while these clowns sit in business leaving paying customer in the terminal and the flow on affect is one more hotel room that your airline will have to buy. Says it all really.
People in Ansett (in the past) and Air NZ have done this too in my experience so it's not just Qantas.