Originally Posted by
1KChinito
If that is the case, wouldn't it be much easier and faster by just examining the manifest, board the plane as soon as the door is open, go to the seat and retrieve the subject PAX?
A few problems with that scenario ...
- Moving through the aisles to that seat would be difficult ... usually, as soon as the plane stops, people jump up to get their bags out of the overhead bins and start crowding the aisles. And this happens independently of any admonitions from the flight crew to stay seated.
- Why assume that the person of interest is actually sitting in the seat they were assigned? If they're at all intelligent, they've probably traded seats with someone, or moved to an empty seat.
- In terms of "retrieval", I'm guessing that it's probably much easier to "detain" a subject in a jetway, where there's a decent amount of space available and the subject is already standing, rather than in an aircraft, where the subject may be three seats away from the aisle and unlikely to want to cooperate with those seeking to detain ...