Originally Posted by
mre5765
Let me try this one more time....
Let me try this one more time (though you are so certain this was some elaborate scheme rather than possibly, just possibly taking it at face value - a jumpseat was INOP - that it's probably futile for me to waste the effort in my fingers)
Originally Posted by
mre5765
A few minutes after the last arriving pax de-planes, the flight starts boarding. Once I get to the end of the jet way, the baggage handler blocks the entrance to the plane because the cleaning and catering crews haven't finished. It was the slowest clean/cater job I've seen, and the bag guy even muttered the same to the FA. I've boarded many times and been stopped in the jetway because of a maintenance issue, but being stopped because catering and cleaning was not done was a first for me. The relevance: a clogged jetway makes it harder for a mechanic to attempt to fix the problem. Boarding early also provides cover for "why didn't the crew inform the gate before boarding that there was an in-op jump seat".And instead the GA ends up in F. Brilliant how he ends his shift working the flight he is going to fly. My admiration for his cleverness is boundless.
Do you really believe that everyone, the caterers, the cleaners, the candlestick makers (maybe the same candlestick that Professor Plum used to break the jumpseat?), not too mention the F/As and Pilots - they were all in on this elaborate plot to make boarding start early, to have the forward galley blocked to stop the jumpseat being repaired, which you question if it was even broken in the first place, and which you have no idea on whether it was something that could even be quickly fixed... yes all of this was contrived so that a passenger would go back and ask to swap with that CSA so they could sit in F.
I mean, really?
And although I have posted this already, you seem to cherry pick what you choose to believe, but to reiterate - The CSA working the flight does not just jump on and take a seat towards the end of boarding. Your claim that this CSA who then was asked to swap seats into F was working the flight. This is just wrong, sorry. The CSA working the flight will be required to give passenger manifests, flight crew paperwork, close the aircraft door, remove the jetbridge or airstairs, and then close out the flight after it's pushed back. I guess you could argue that the CSA somehow got yet another CSA (a secret CSA who actually really was working the flight) to be yet another participant in this elaborate scheme.
Originally Posted by
mre5765
UFB. FT provides endless entertainment.
Well, I certainly agree with you here!