onlynik

Yes. Shouldn't matter.

I must admit I'd class myself as teetotal, though I have many colleagues who are functioning alcoholics, but they fly EK, rather than BA.

KARFA

Of course, advocated by someone who is teetotal

Have you ever operated an emergency exit hatch?

Butts

Try telling that to the GC Holders that habitually occupy these seats when slumming it in ET (including me)

Do you want a minimum height requirement as well ?

Come to think of it should Exit Rows be frequented by 6 Footers who need the legroom and not some of the vertically challenged people often ensconced in said seats with their feet barely touching the floor ?

PAL62V

I was wondering that too.

ACES70

there are times when the exit row seats are left empty! Other times i have heard it said that the person right next to the door has to be physically able to open it and it doesn't matter about the middle or aisle seat passenger

rapidex

It does matter, the middle or aisle must not impede evacuation, so you couldn't put a wheelchair passenger there.

DYKWIA

I broke my ankle a couple of months ago and was in a boot for 6 weeks, and needed crutches. It would have been more or less impossible for me to have met the requirements to sort out the emergency exit. Every single thing I did took about 5 times as long - you don't realise how simple things like getting into a car / taxi are difficult when you are immobile

Even now (2 weeks after getting rid of the boot), it's still slow going!

Can I help you

WCH(R) passengers can sit in an emergency exit row, that is why the ground staff and cabin crew have to assess the passengers capabilities.

c1223

A passenger sitting in the window seat of an exit row on my flight the other day was refused a seat belt extender and reaccomodated elsewhere on the plane. Without wanting to stir the pot, I did question whether they would have been able to "operate" the door due to it's weight.

Interestingly the other passenger between myself in the aisle on the window seat passenger almost point blank refused to remove their "fanny pack"/"bum bag" that was around their shoulder and across their body. After much back and forth, they eventually removed what looked like about �5k in cash from it and allowed the cabin crew to place it in the overhead locker.

Just to add, this was a Ryanair flight to Poland. They seemed particularly stringent on exit row rules, unlike, among others, AA.

onlynik

Not on a plane but on an armoured vehicle.

KARFA

So that would be a no.

HCCCrew

In the US, the FAA permits bags at over-wing exit rows which is why AA allows it.

bluemoon68

Travelling on crutches recently in business, the crutches were taken away for take off and landing and returned to me at other times. Even though this would have meant I would be even less mobile if there was an urgent evacuation during these times.

onlynik

What about underwater inverted escape from a helicopter, where you need to push the window out, does that count?

ratechaser

Ooooh, now I'd be all for that one, no self interest there, obviously