Antarius

Internationally? Who on earth would sneak through J to Y for a longhaul flight?

mvoight

He's either a thief of liar... Ignore him
My guess is it was a lie. FAs check.
Even an lazy FA would check. After all, if it's an extra person that doesn't belong, it means extra work for the lazy FA. Plus, having the count over by 1 in F and under by one in another cabin, would be a sign of a problem.

downhillcrasher

No, no one would. The OPs friend is full of it. Please excuse my saturday night satire.

gemac

Remarkable. I've never seen this. The only difference between your flights and mine that I can see is that your flights had you on them, and mine had me on them. Things that make you go "Hmmmm..."

wcaldog

Last week on nrt-ord flight, my name was not on the manifest and I was on C. The flight attendant asked to see my boarding pass (which was issued by jAL as my first segment was on jAL. She later apologized and said one other girl was also not on their manifest but I didn't ask what cabin she was in. I got my miles so I was scanned and in the system.

She said she has seen people not in the manifest but was surprised they had 2 out of NRT as they are usually very good coming out of there.

3544quebec

Don't the FAs also do a DNA test prior to lending you the diamond encrusted BOSE headsets?

Austinrunner

Nothing more need be said. This thread is a waste of bandwidth.

Upgraded!

While I recognize the intended humor, I can imagine a scenario where a couple are traveling, one has the ability to book F on the company dime, the other booked J on their own dime and the one in F went and sat with said spouse. If they spoke to one FA and the OP another then I could see it. All very low probability, though.

Upgraded!

While AA may ultimately prevail I think it may have a tougher time making its case under the scenario described. The self-upgrader would likely have said "I got confused and thought they'd upgraded me, I'm EXP after all" and if they FA never asked him to go back to his assigned seat initially, and he complied when finally asked, it may be hard to prove he did this intentionally. Notice I said "prove" as opposed to "know". The knowing factor would be easy, IMO .

FlyerTalker688786

Last year I flew ORD-MIA in F on a 3-class a/c. A lady asked me to switch seat so she could sit with her husband. So I did, and changed from 1A to 1G (can not remember exact seat number but you get the idea from the first row window seat to aisle seat in another aisle)

Before departure I was asked by a F.A. where is my origional seat (well I am not going into the route of racial bs...). But certainly they check who is sitting in F.

It is easy to sneak from F to Y. Nobody would bother. But sneak from Y to F...Possible after the cabin is dark after departure but soon you would be found out and chase back to your origional seats.

I would believe a story of someone got friend with a FA and joined mile high club and subsequently moved to F seats for a short period. But no way I am going to beliebe the sit in F in boarding till deboarding.

PUCCI GALORE

Don't believe it for a moment.

catmndu

I was on a lightly loaded 777 DFW-MAD in late July 2012 in J. A woman sat down in the seat next to mine and then moved to another empty seat. She was offered a PDB but shortly after that a FA was greeting passengers in J by name. Shortly thereafter she was sent off to her correct seat in Y.

They do check...

AAerSTL

This won't work, I'm not buying it.

I've seen NRSAs get moved to F/J from Y presumably because they are too cheap/unable to afford the nominal services charges and taxes and of course obtain submit a description of the passengers and associated FAs and flight/seat numbers to AA.

cynicAAl

prior to NGBC J, I've seen about half of the J cabin take empty rows of 5 seats in Y to get some horizontal sleep on LAX-LHR. And no, the FA's wouldn't let those of us in the AB/HJ seats take the empty J seats

elkhornne

^, back in the days of Braniff. Oh I miss those days.