Originally Posted by
Weatherboy
Out of curiosity, what would happen if there was a passenger count goof and there was an extra passenger on board than there were seats. (i.e.: pax was in the lav, moving around during count, etc....and somehow the plane took off with one less seat than it needed.) What kind of fines/penalties/credits to the pax would be levied in such a situation?
That happened to me on UA-- well not to me but another passenger on the flight--- the passenger was in the lav and came out whilst we were taxi'ing. We went back to the gate to offload a passenger.
The way I read this story is that the passenger did not complain until after they were up in the air, which really does limit the options for fixing things.