Originally Posted by pbiflyer
Boarded the 737, to find 4 flight attendants in uniform, sitting in the exit rows.
Is this a common practice on CO or was this an exception?
They were most likely a deadheading crew....being moved to another city to work a later flight.
Honestly I don't know the order of priority in assigning seats (crew vs. revenue pax), except to say that we are to get exit rows when deadheading when possible. If we are deadheading, then we are part of the working crew - and the crux of our job is to man the emergency exits and facilitate an evac. In that light, it makes sense to put us in the exit rows when deadheading.