Originally Posted by
5aday
Indeed. I was not aware of these changes. I did say 'in my time' and clearly things have changed in Trade Group 9. I've been retired from flying for 16 years now and quite frankly, now I don't give a rats arse.
ps. Changes in TG9? It needed a lot of changes.
pps. It was always a request from fleet management , always short haul, and I was never asked anyway. On reflection, I think I would have always denied a 'famil' jump seat. In 35 minutes going to CDG ( or BRU or MAN for example) there was very little time to talk to anyone else (on the flight deck) except the F/O.
As a civil ATCO, we always got these letters issued to us to give to cabin crew when undertaking a 'fam flight'. We recognised it was always 'captain's discretion' for access to the flight deck.
Usually with BA, you were invited to join the crew at crew reporting, but still had to travel to the aircraft with other pax as you didn't have the necessary airside pass(es).