Originally Posted by
newyorklondon
I wonder if that's enforced frequently? For example, over the years, I've sat next to countless people in exit rows on BA who cannot understand English, and where they did not share a common language with CC.
I have seen many cases where people were asked to move in that situation.
Originally Posted by
mickeyjaw
* If a member of cabin crew can't lift a bag into the overhead comfortably then I would be concerned about their level of fitness to perform during an emergency evacuation or other emergency
I can lift well over my body weight, and can handle emergency exits and normal doors perfectly fine (and have done so) and I have even been a manual handling instructor to for injury prevention, but cannot lift a 23 kg bag into the overhead locker without risking injuring myself.
Overhead and non-overhead lifting are quite different.
Originally Posted by
orbitmic
Whilst I mentioned that discretion was not an option in response to an earlier recommendation, my main point was not about making a fuss but about the fact that in this particular case, a cabin crew member already had all the information available from which I derived my perception that my person should not have been allowed in that seat as she had been told explicitly by him that he could not lift his suitcase because he had recently broken his elbow by falling.
While I agree that bringing information to the attention of crew if they may not have it is important, this was not the case here: I had no new information to add so my intervention could have only meant: 'you don't know your job' and it is a message I do not feel entirely competent/in my place giving to crew as they know more than me.
I can sympathise with that position, especially if he was not seated by the exit as he was not at risk of blocking the exit. Where in the exit row was he seated?