well the official concerned wont resign or anything close to it...in fact the official concerned does it regularly...
Lets me explain...when you fly and do FAAA duties often you spend a week in the FAAA office then go flying on the saturday, or when you come in from a 9 day pattern on a sunday you might spend a week in the office.
Whilst MBT and MPG is important as an award entitlement it is for individuals according to their circumstances to determine. The hoary old chestut about the company watching what flight attendants do has been around since 1988 when the bid system came in and they are not remotely interested in what individuals actually do.
The rule is that you cannot complete a duty and commence another on the same day..This has been the case since a CSM operated an LA pattern and then came home and on the same day did a trans tasman service.
The issue is not about infringing rules its about safety. I think that if we are going to expect officials to fly and then have their standown before doing any FAAA stuff then it would grind to a halt.
For decades officials have combined duties or crammed them together just like flight attendants do to ensure time off.. If its good enough for flight attendants to be able to infringe MBT to do trips back to back to ensure a special day off then it should be ok for everyone.
Having said that, if flight attendants want the workrules changed to stop flight attendants from doing this then they need to pressure the union into it at the next EBA. I for one would be against it. Its about individual choice that affects nobody. To say that its sets a precedent is ludicrous as its a choice that the majority of crew have done from time to time.
The fact that an FAAA official does it and crew complain smacks of hypocracy to me