Originally Posted by
volta
Last year March during a big snow storm, there was a serious overbooking from BOS to FRA (one flight did not make it to BOS from ZRH), so they were putting people on FRA flight. The 747 was completely full and there were passengers on the jump seats (all jump seats were full), which after take off were taken to the crew quarters for the duration of the flight. Passengers returned back to jump seats for landing.
Just a couple of days ago I had a friend flying from YYZ to ZRH (booked in C on AC) that ended up on a FA jump seat for the whole flight. First (having checked in very early) he was supposed to be left behind due to overbooking (in Y and C) but was allowed on board after emphasizing his need to be back to Europe in time. Obviously, the respective FA was not at all pleased to give away her seat (don't know where she was during take off and landing but for sure not at her "station").
Anyhow, seemed strange to me that a C pax is not even given a Y seat but has to sit at the door (freezing, uncomfortable, noisy, etc.) instead of enjoying his nice AC single cabin C seat.