Originally Posted by
crewmeal
My understanding has always been (and were not talking about offloading pax already boarded here) that the reason the CEO even going back to the days when the Commonwealth owned all the shares, had a category that bumped everyone else was because although unlikely, there might be a circumstance where say, traffic rights or the impounding of an aircraft or something like that is sufficiently serious that his/her travel supersedes everything else. I may be wrong but I think in those days there was a special category for the CEO for that purpose but it was not the normal category used by him/her for regular duty travel.