Originally Posted by
pinniped
I had a flight yesterday on AA in a different part of the country. I'm personally glad these four UA employees got onboard, thus sparing the entire aviation system from total shutdown. Otherwise, I'd probably still be driving home right now...
Do you realize how many tens or hundreds of times a day crews need to be shuffled around? It's just that most of the time the need to shuffle them happens before boarding instead of during or after, and crews deadheading won't necessarily be flying in uniform, so nobody notices. Perhaps your flight yesterday on AA was operated by a replacement crew that was able to get to your airport on time after bumping passengers out, but you'll never know.