I apologize for calling your opinion dumb, but I respectfully disagree that we can't use the crew security when jumpseating. I am going through crew security every week at a major airport in UK and never hide the fact I am jumpseating. Never been a problem. Actually I used the pax security at same airport once, and was not_so_politely refered to crew security. Tell me again I am a commiting a disciplinary offence !! Unless of course security staff is talking through their ass...
What we are talking about is people who don't have a ticket of any sort and who are not on duty, putting on a uniform and walking through a crew channel using (actually abusing the terms of the their ID) to pretend to be part of an operating crew to beg a lift home, again i understand the why, but that doesn't make it right or lawful, put simply if you are not on duty (flying/positioning at the behest of your employer) or in possession of a valid boarding card then you should not be airside period, it is a restricted area.
I am sorry to say that's exactly what we are talking about, and exactly what I am doing each week to maximise my time at home with my 5 month old son. Considering I am away more than I am home every hour is valuable. What possibly make me so dangerous on airside when I am not on duty?
Many of the opinions here come from folks that either never have had to, or forgotten how it is, to commute. We are not doing it for the fun of it and anything that can facilitate the process make it a little less painful. Suggesting I should change job or country of residency, is a very naive thing, border line offensive, to say.
I understand the Ryanair way of doing jumpseating is dodgy and avoids airport taxes. But sometimes the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy is quite appropriate. Unless of course you are out to shaft your colleauges in other airlines. It's not like we are stealing your job.
If this is Ryanair we are talking about, what happens at say STN when you've flown in from BUD and you are heading for DUB? are you in uniform? do you go to the FR crew room and then walk out to the aircraft
Yes, more or less so.