How can the AA Captain complain about paperwork when he didn't say anything about it until the FA told him she was "concerned" after having rifled through his personal belongings, finding a book on Middle East history, while he was away from his seat? Bad paperwork is just an excuse.

Here's a question for you folks. Why do you care? I'm really curious. Why the interest in the manifest.

The flight attendant could HAND me the manifest and I'd be like, oh, that's neat. Depending on how long the flight was, I might actually even find my own name on it and see what it said about me. But it would have to be a long flight.

I may be the exception here, but I'm just not interested in seeing who's on the plane with me and what their status is. I do not understand the fascination with the manifest, especially since we are not supposed to see it.

Ah, maybe that's it. Since we're not supposed to see it, it becomes interesting. Now I get it.

So, basenji and liz, the way to keep people from peeking at the manifest is to hand it to them. Then they'll just put it in the seat pocket and forget about it =)

[This message has been edited by mdtony (edited 01-28-2002).]

An excuse is a reason without foundation. This was not the case. The paperwork WAS faulty. Whatever the pilots mindset BEFORE he discovered the bad paperwork (which is purely speculative, I might add), he was within reasonable limits to deny PCFA priviledges on the basis of the bad paperwork alone.

I just figured it out. An elite benefit should be the ability to review the manifest in the cabin you are seated. Or perhaps the gate agent should make a copy for the 1k's prior to departure.

Generally, UA's domestic inflight service in premium cabins seems better these days. But the NRT cabin crews who have replaced the SIN crews, while better than US-based crews, are still but a fraction of the SIN crews.