rbrenton88

If so, do you know what happened?

Strange passenger boards right after FC was seated...young white guy with a scraggly beard confers with the FA in the front galley. Then he wanders to row 3 and stares at the person sitting in 3A. The FA walks over and ask what seat he was looking for and he replied "3F". So he turns around and stares at the person seated in 3F. The FA asked to see his boarding pass, which he produced in the form of a crumpled ball. The FA looks at it and tells him his seat is 21B and escorts him to the back.

At this point, all boarding stops for a good 5 minutes. Then, back he comes, being escorted up and off the plane altogether, then boarding resumes. Some comments were that he was drunk, but he wasn't stumbling, raving, or anything obvious.

I'm just curious what the real story was.

belynch

Maybe he was just stunned that Boca has an airport and that he was flying out of it?

Weez_1000

hahaha I was thinking to myself when the hell did CO or anyone else fir that matter start servicing Boca?

bocastephen

Oh boy, that's all we need - locals have been trying to shut the airport for eons. One more decibel of noise or the hint of commercial service and they'll succeed.

Sounds like a drunk - and an annoying one at that.

Moriens

The right side seat of the Beech 1900s that Gulfstream flies as Continental Connection is "F". So 3F sounds like an economy seat on a flight from somewhere like MHH or Key West. It's likely the passenger confused his EYW-FLL and FLL-EWR seat assignments.

If the boarding passes were crumpled up, maybe the GA used the sequence number instead when the bar code wouldn't scan, and then the passenger who actually had that sequence number on the FLL-EWR flight made the computer hold up the boarding process?

The confused passenger may have boarded on the wrong FLL-EWR flight (there were two more later that day). So the wrong sequence number could have been from the wrong segment or from the wrong Newark flight. If he never got back on your flight, the latter sounds likely.

bocastephen

A weird, scruffy confused guy from Key West? How rare is that?

OK, I think your conclusion is the right one.

JC1120

Maybe they mean FLL or PBI? The OP clearly says "FC" which would imply a mainline jet.

rbrenton88

Whoops! Sorry, I was in Boca, but then flew out of Fort Lauderdale. This was a 4-row 1st class, something-row econ.

usa18dca

Okay fess up...which one of you changed the FLL Airport Name to Boca =)

ijgordon

The funny thing is, I didn't even realize the "Boca" mistake at first. As someone who flies down there frequently, it sounded pretty natural to me.

channa

I thought we were talking about DBV (Del Boca Vista International Airport).

tvetter01

I once sat next to Frank Costanza on a flight to DBV.

beckoa

That would prove to be a very interesting seatmate...

I've seen an inebriated fellow escorted off the plane once (I think he was to sit next to me)... we get quite a few workers who indulge in beverages after leaving the oil fields heading back to the lower 48...

mdaecher

I would too after two weeks of no booze

cruisr

Well Boca would have been more convenient to visit my FIL. Guess I'm stuck with FLL or PBI still.