Originally Posted by
lkrt
I believe it is an industry practice and also possibly specified in their collective agreement that deadhead flights are always in J (”to be able to rest”).
I recently flew ORD-HEL and there been at least 11 AY employees in J, the all had laminates and boarded first so you know they are AY related, cabin was filled by 80% service was so/so since the crew chat with their colleagues a lot. But I had flights worse on AY.