Originally Posted by
AerialPerspective
Rubbish. The definition in one airline I'm familiar with is 'positioning to effect the operation of the aircraft' making it what is called 'operational duty travel'. KB is correct. At that airline if a crew member is booked (it's not called mustgo, it's a specific staff category) they WILL displace a commercial passenger and the reason is simple - denying boarding to that passenger and transferring them to another airline is preferable to inconveniencing the other 400 pax on the flight the crew member is flying over to operate.
You rubbish the post which says the company travel requirement has nothing to do with the pax who has boarded and happily seated and then say the procedure to get company staff on board is to deny boarding. Quite different to kicking someone out of their seat. Why don't the company staff travel with the other airline if it's so easy?