Originally Posted by
emcampbe
It depends on the crew, and the flight, and probably how full E+ is. Not that this would help with the specific OPs situation, but also, I've seen GAs do a specific run through to ensure the seats occupied in E+ match with the manifest, and have watched folks been sent back to E- a few times. I'd also suspect they are more strict about this long-haul where the buy ups can bring in a lot of revenue, $100-$150 per pop.
yes, my experience with GAs has been that they are E+ dragons. flight crews, at the point after which the door is closed, not so much but ymmv. i agree when E+ is quite empty it's more likely that poachers will be called out.