Originally Posted by
jimlad48
Also one young man (teenager) didn’t have a seat and had to sit in the jump seat for take off and landing and hang around in the galley area. We heard the crew talking about this, and it seemed that he wasn’t a staff member on staff travel – I didn’t think you could overbook these flights as a passenger?
That would have to be either staff or a staff relation / staff ticketing. Since 9/11, and despite knowing a lot of BA captains, I've only once been able to cadge a standby jump seat, and that was in a set of odd circumstances from just NCL-LHR. Jump seats don't get allocated to general passengers, let alone Transatlantic.
[Actually one exception would be if he or someone in his party was boarded, and it turned out a seat was unusable or dangerous after pushing back from the gate].