This has 32 rows of seats!

It's a big deal to ensure that the plane is operating within it's weight & balance limitations, and well within a pilot's/captain's responsibility to do whatever is necessary to ensure safe operation.

what the hell....

I just freaking did it - we all did. No biggie.

What the hell is wrong with people? Though it's funny that asshat got in trouble.

For some reason the passengers ended up clustered on the left side of the plane. The flight attendents asked some of them to move to the right side to balance the load - no objections. It was a tiny plane, though - maybe 16-20 rows.

and then got frustrated and wanted the captain to come back and move people.

He has a point. Why should everyone have to sit around and wait longer because six people are a$$holes?
Captain should have come back, selected people to move, and they do it or they leave the plane.


I am so SICK of flying.

My husband and I flew back last Friday from LaGuardia to Raleigh. The gate agent announced the plane was overweight
and they were asking first 5 people to give up seats, and then 10 people to give up seats. They started out at $200 vouchers
and then upped it to $500. Problem was, it was AA' s last flight out and the winter storm was due to hit within two hours
after our arrival time. Then they said if they didn't get volunteers, they would start removing people based on who last checked in.
No way did 10 people line up to take the offer.

After we boarded and were ready to go, I could only count 2 empty seats, so the whole thing didn't make sense to me at all.

Unless it was a turboprop or small jet, I can't see how a larger jet couldn't handle a full load of passengers and enough fuel to make that short flight.

Not surprising.

Not surprising you would make a post like that....

And get backed up behind the drink cart

Yes it is.

With 10 people we're probably somewhere between 1,500 to 2,000 lbs? I don't understand why anyone would give a pilot hassle over that.

He had the same "kink" (allegedly) that Trump had--in fact, he became furious when that proclivity became a part of the "Sex and The City" plotline--with Carrie (the Candace Bushnell character) dating a NYC politician (D'Amato, disguised) who wanted Carrie to do the R-Kelly on him.

He was making noise that he was gonna sue, but he never did.

Just made it worse for him!

The part of D'Amato (disguised) was played brilliantly by John Slattery:

http://www.avclub.com/article/forget-sterlings-gold-and-remember-sterlings-golde-217393

D'amato was ordered off the plane after he berating passengers who weren't following the crews orders. He only started his attempt to rally passengers (to get off with him) after he had been ordered off.

The headline has it backwards.