Originally Posted by
gorgi_flyer
I did encounter a NRSA who was a friend of a UA employee of over 10 years and was denied F seat from ewr to ord as the GA claimed the cabin checked in full but wasn't when the door closed. She was a bi-polar sufferer and felt it was only decent to help her through security and guested her to wait in the United club and got her breakfast as well. She wore jeans, boots and nothing out of the ordinary and was dressed decently but treated shabily by the GA.
She had excellent manners and did not once give the impression " i deserve this and this".
Jeans are not within the dress code for first class NRSA travel on most airlines. Period. It may well be that the GA, in saying that F was full, was simply trying to avoid embarrassing this person by telling her that she was inappropriately dressed.
See, the issue isn't whether she was dressed "decently," the issue is whether she was dressed according to the requirements of the dress code. Actually, it was probably the fault of the "UA employee for over 10 years" for not knowing these requirements and seeing to it that her friend adhered to them.
But in any event, it appears that the friend did OK. She got to go to the RCC, got a nice breakfast, and got a free or nearly free ride to Chicagoland. Everybody should be so lucky.