Originally Posted by
makin'miles
I travel quite a bit, and have never seen an airline pushback with 9-10 passengers not yet in their seats.
I'd imagine that any western aviation safety regulator would take a pretty dim view of this indeed.
On flights to/from Tbilisi on local airlines in the early 2000s it was common to have people standing during takeoff and landing. I remember a flight TBS-DUS where a few people were standing the whole flight and most everyone else got up the instant the wheels touched down.