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[Midnight Mike]

My question is, how were you able to fly jumpseat?

Old rules before 9/11, if you worked for a Cargo Airline, you were able to ride in the upperdeck, and the pilots would let you sit in the jumpseat. I lost count of the number of times that I sat in the jumpseat.....

For me I would try to sleep in the back or get some work done & the Pilots would call my name on the intercom to report to the Flight Deck to keep the pilots company :D

I rode the jumpseats for both Nippon Cargo Airlines & Polar Air Cargo.

[Nonstop2AUH]

Heck, pre-9/11 on some foreign carriers any passenger could visit the flight deck in flight if the crew ok'd it. I did several with Gulf Air (763) and BA (741, 742, 744, 777) in the '90s including in one case jumpseat for the landing.

[mirrodie]

For me I would try to sleep in the back or get some work done & the Pilots would call my name on the intercom to report to the Flight Deck to keep the pilots company

You were the entertainment! :) We'll call him Jester ;)

Heck, pre-9/11 on some foreign carriers any passenger could visit the flight deck in flight if the crew ok'd it. I did several with Gulf Air (763) and BA (741, 742, 744, 777) in the '90s including in one case jumpseat for the landing.
Yeah, those were the days, I did several times on QF and TN, sat for jumpseat landings 3 times thus far.