Originally Posted by
Boyfrombiot
The really surprising thing about this story is that it took so long for the purser to spot it. On flights I have been on the senior crew member does a headcount check before departure.
Cheers,
Steve
Agreed, and earlier on the crew were extremely diligent about checking boarding passes, even to the point of holding up boarding for about a minute while one passenger faffed about rummaging through her handbag until she found hers. It just seemed that when it was only the last handful of PAX from the third bus left to board the priority became to get everything for departure a.s.a.p.