The Airlines accountants see the need to be "seen" to be doing something about security so that the passengers will still see "their" airline as the preferred one.
They have transferred that "fear" to Flt Ops via the regulators who have followed the push from the pollies who need to be seen to be "security aware".
You can reinforce as much of the door, insert pins, locks, passwords, marshalls and as much operational inconveniance as you like, but if you just kept them off the A/C in the first place by a better security system the job of the "AVIATOR" would be a lot easier.
No staff travel. Why not? The extra person in the cockpit would enhance the security, make the access for food/drink much easier and SECURE, as getting out of the operational seat, unlocking the door after checking the identity of the caller, getting the refreshments organised, relocking the door, back in the seat, find the tray on the floor and enjoy!!!.
All so we can have the facard of SECURITY.
On 2 crew long sectors it is IMHO a degridation to the safe operation of the Aircraft.
It is taking a lot of the enjoyment out of the job in the last year or so of so much good fun over the last 40.
To the guy with his Dad, Stuff 'em, get him on again, give the chief pilot the call and get an approval, YOUR DAD IS THAT IMPORTANT!!! and even Chief pilots sometimes have Dads too, not often, but sometimes they are mortals.
Off to the locked room again, got to increase the profits of the boss.
