Flight deck visits
Feel like an intruder here as this is my first visit to this part of PPRune - I normally don't stray from Military Aircrew or Jetblast. However this forum seems more appropriate for my question.
At a family get together a few days ago, a cousin who I hadn't seen for a year, informed me that on a holiday flight in the summer on a major UK carrier he was invited onto the flight deck for a 15 minute visit. This on the strength of mentioning to a flight attendant that he was 10 hours into a PPL.
Correct me if I am wrong but I thought this sort of thing post 9/11 was illegal, and flight deck visits were a thing of the past. I've no reason to doubt said cousin, he's not given to spinning yarns so I can only assume it did happen. Any comments?