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Would a DL employee who has never worked as a GA know how to do this? I'm thinking of my DL ATL CO gate agent for a day experience, and IIRC if you didn't know how to change seats, it would take some fiddling with the computer to do it and perhaps more to try to make it seem innocuous. Staff who normally work at check in counters would be trained as GAs, I guess, and phone reservations people probably are familiar with the system, but could other DL employees do this easily?
If the NRSA was flying from his/her home airport, depending on how big a station it is, the GA might know the person, which I'd expect at SFO but not JFK. So I'm curious whether the NRSA party was traveling outbound or inbound. I also wonder whether the NRSA has done this before as well as generally how often it happens. This could explain some mysterious seat moves that we've experienced.