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More than ten years captain in Spain. I have transported hundreds of xcrew, spanish and foreign. I have dozens of anecdotes about. One very curious was about an argentino who bought an uniform, made a false card and flew two or three times with my company as xcrew. He was revealed and taken by the authorities.
Nowadays it is really difficult to pass the police controls and get into an airplane. Leonardo di Caprio would find it imposible. Even if you are perfectly uniformed, has a valid IB card and you are familiar with the airport. You can't access by walk. Usually pilots comes in a company car. Finally you are not to be accepted to cockpit if you are not well known or a company pilot. That is another rule in our OM.
I think the more danger comes from the airport workers. Pilots are treated as potential terrorist in UE and EU. But I have seen at a lot of UE main airports, cars entering to the ramp with no inspection at all, and workers with handbags joining by no filter gates. Really easy to introduce a gun into an airplane
Xcrew it is not as dangerous as you imagine and it is really usefull. In Spain if you are flight crew and you fly with your or other company, uniformed or not, it is a polite issue to identify to the crew on duty and offer your help. It is similar to spanish elevators. When you goes into we are used to say hello. Usually the captain will upgrade you to business to correspond your generosity.
