Passengers removed due to weight balance!
I was on JetBlue 91 from JFK to OAK on Apr 9.
About 10 minutes after everyone boarded and they closed the cabin doors,
the cabin doors were opened again and a JetBlue agent came on board.
He called off the names of about 6 passengers and asked them to identify themselves. He then said that because of "wing weight and balance issues",
everyone who was flying standby had to leave the plane, and their
luggage would be offloaded and returned to them. Some very unhappy people
got up and left. Then he picked several remaining passengers and asked
them to move to different seats, again citing "wing weight and balance issues".
The rest of us were stunned.
Has anyone else experienced this or know what the back story is?