Originally Posted by
LarryJ
If she was an employee of some other airline who was jumpseating, I'm not sure how that works. A pilot jumpseater can be put in an open F seat if Y is full but I don't know if that applies to offline FA jumpseaters. In either case, no charge would be due.
There are very, very limited OAL cabin jumpseating agreements. There’s no CASS equivalent for us, so it’s usually limited to Mainline-Partners. Very few UAX planes have a spare cabin jumpseat to begin with...
A mainline FA on CJA can take any open seat in the cabin.
The story sounds like a commuting FA who wasn’t sure of all the rules, and I can’t necessarily fault the GA — the “new systems” may not let them force a NRSA into F