SD: "We're not taking off until 14 pax relocate to the back" of an A321!
After boarding was complete on AC110 yesterday, Service Director gets on the blower and announces that we have an imbalance. We won't depart until 14 pax volunteer to relocate to the back third of the aircraft.
I've seen pax reseating for weight and balance on commuter aircraft, but never on a jet as big as an A321. It took 15 minutes, and two waves of volunteer recruitment, to sort out the reseating. The only incentive to move, as far as I could tell, was that we would take off once enough pax volunteered to sit in the back. Otherwise we were going nowhere fast!
Is this a common practice on Air Canada? I've never run into it, but I only fly about 25% of my miles on AC, mostly intercontinental.