Originally Posted by Fly Me To The Moon

I took the TPE-HKG CX 407 flight early-morning of 21.Apr. The flight was very full as CX was trying to consolidate as many passengers on this and earlier flights as possible. The later flights that morning were all delayed by a few hours because CX could not get aircraft into TPE from last evening due to heavy rains in HKG causing massive departure delays.

I was sitting in J of a 333. One of the last passengers to rush on board took her bag to the luggage bin above my seat and then put the bag in there. She then spoke to one of the flight attendants and said that she had been assigned a jump seat. At first, I thought that she was going to sit in one of the crew seats, but I was quite surprised that she got shown into the cockpit and she stayed in there for the duration of the flight, including getting her meal served there.

I did not know that passengers could get assigned cockpit seats now. Is this something new? From overhearing the conversation between the passenger and the flight attendant, I did not get the impression that the passenger was anyone famous or that favors had been pulled.