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I was just making the point that I didn't see why people would sit on a jumpseat by choice.
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When I came back from the Reno Air Races a couple years ago I volunteered to sit in the F/A jumpseat. There was another guy behind me on the standby list, and if I rode jumpseat he would get on, if I refused and (what would have been my right to do so) wanted the pax seat he would not have made it on. I didn't mind taking the jumpseat because the seat left was like 32E. So I had my choice of sitting in the nice spacious aft galley of our 737 (albeit in a stick-straight seat with NO recline), or being cramped in a middle seat the whole way (no thanks). I gladly took the jumpseat, was more comfortable, and another non-rev got on the flight. Everybody won.
I was just making the point that I didn't see why people would sit on a jumpseat by choice.
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When I came back from the Reno Air Races a couple years ago I volunteered to sit in the F/A jumpseat. There was another guy behind me on the standby list, and if I rode jumpseat he would get on, if I refused and (what would have been my right to do so) wanted the pax seat he would not have made it on. I didn't mind taking the jumpseat because the seat left was like 32E. So I had my choice of sitting in the nice spacious aft galley of our 737 (albeit in a stick-straight seat with NO recline), or being cramped in a middle seat the whole way (no thanks). I gladly took the jumpseat, was more comfortable, and another non-rev got on the flight. Everybody won.