Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
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].
Originally Posted by
jimlad48
Thanks CWS - thats really helpful to know - we were sat close to the galley so could hear the crew talking about it, hence our curiosity. A great crew - I made sure I passed thanks onto both the person that looked after us and the CSD for a job well done!
(I've only jumpseated once and that was in an RAF Hercules in Afghanistan under very different circumstances :-) )
Crew relation is most likely. I know a BA Captain whose daughter is at university abroad. She does the LHR-SIN run quite frequently on her own, whether that be in F or even in the worst case in the jump seat. Usually somewhere in between. From her 13 hours is not fun on a jump seat with no IFE!