SimonM
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Airlines always make a big deal of selecting passengers capable of operating the exits to be seated in exit rows. I'm early 50's, unfit but lean-ish with no disabilities and wonder if I might be rejected some times.
However, in 3 of the 4 flights I took this week, folks with perhaps less than full capacity were seated next to the window in the exit row.
In the first flight, a guy with a broken leg was seated in 15F and then shifted to the back row by cabin crew. Next, the captain of an Air NZ Beech 1900 could be heard making a complaint to the ground crew over their seating of an elderly gentleman in a exit row, but he left him there. Finally, another frail looking elderly gentleman, who had been delivered to the plane by wheelchair, was seated in 15F and left there.
I'm not 100% comfortable with this and quite surprised that check-in staff allow it.
However, in 3 of the 4 flights I took this week, folks with perhaps less than full capacity were seated next to the window in the exit row.
In the first flight, a guy with a broken leg was seated in 15F and then shifted to the back row by cabin crew. Next, the captain of an Air NZ Beech 1900 could be heard making a complaint to the ground crew over their seating of an elderly gentleman in a exit row, but he left him there. Finally, another frail looking elderly gentleman, who had been delivered to the plane by wheelchair, was seated in 15F and left there.
I'm not 100% comfortable with this and quite surprised that check-in staff allow it.
