Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
Yes there will; when they check the boarding pass. They can easily do the same as AA does and when someone presents a BP, the reader bleeps if it is for an exit seat with a display to indicate that it is a exit row pass and agent then has to confirm that the passenger is ok to sit there
Dave
There have been some rather complicated situations as a result of unsuitable pay-for-exit-row passengers on some LCCs (e.g. check-in and gate agents letting them through, and cabin crew needing to deal with the situation which resulted in quite a carry-on).
But then again, I've also seen unsuitable high status pax being seated in exit row and cabin crew appeared not to dare do anything about it, so it is not a unique situation with paid exit row, I guess.