Jump seat?
Howdy,
Got a question for ya'll. Yesterday I'm in Atlanta (ATL), heading home (CMI). As some of you may have noticed, ORD was having serious delays yesterday. Not a problem for me, I can (and often do) get home via STL.
So anyway - I think because of all the delays and cancelations in ORD my flight to STL ended up being totally overbooked, with a notice that the standby list was full.
They did the normal thing about asking for folks to volunteer to give up seats, etc...
Then I heard an announcement that I've never heard before. I'm not dead sure I got it right, but what I think I heard was:
"If anyone is ERJ or jump seat qualified, please see the gate agent".
I wonder: what is ERJ and/or what is jump seat qualified?
Also - if my speculation that this means they were going to let a passenger ride in the cockpit because they were oversold?
Any ideas? Has anyone ever heard a similar annoucement?
Keep the faith,
Pakse