Originally Posted by
ozstamps
And would the fault for that delay - if it occured, in your mind, lie with the First Class passenger, (who as I understand it is totally able to ask to de-plane - corrrect?) or the Service Director for herding 10 youngsters into F at the last moment, and not taking a few minutes to assign the seats to GS and full fare etc?
What astonishes me is the continued conflation of young and unruly. What if the service director had "properly" found 10 GS folks and OpUped them...only to find out that they were 25 year old investment bankers coming back from holiday. You think they would have slept the entire way? Been any less unruly than the "youngsters"? Or is 25 also too young to be allowed into F? What would have been the appropriate remedy then for the 1 full fare F passenger? Whose fault would the delay then be if the F passenger chose to deplane?
It seems to me it would have been the fault of the F passenger for choosing not to fly with others who were clearly entitled (by way of being given F boarding passes by the GA) to be in F. This is exactly the same as in your hypothetical.