B737 captain was informed by the first class flight attendant of the presence of fam's on board. Nei...

Narrative:

Neither the flight attendant or myself was notified of any fam's that boarded. In addition the manifest did not show any fam's either. The flight attendant was informed by the fam when she asked if he would swap seats; the fam made sure I was notified of his seat change. When I asked the boarding agent; she was not aware of any fam's on board. Apparently when the fam's checked in the agent forgot to enter them as fam's.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 Captain was informed by the First Class Flight Attendant of the presence of FAM's on board. Neither had been previously informed and the Gate Agent was also unaware of the presence of FAM's

Narrative: Neither the Flight Attendant or myself was notified of any FAM's that boarded. In addition the manifest did not show any FAM's either. The Flight Attendant was informed by the FAM when she asked if he would swap seats; the FAM made sure I was notified of his seat change. When I asked the boarding agent; she was not aware of any FAM's on board. Apparently when the FAM's checked in the agent forgot to enter them as FAM's.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	887989
Time
Date	201005
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	SFO.Airport
State Reference	CA
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

B737 captain was informed by the first class flight attendant of the presence of fam's on board. Neither had been previously informed and the gate agent was also unaware of the presence of fam's