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Why so much chatter in a very simple subject?
..because people are arguing about what it means to be "on duty" in at least three different contexts...
1)Airside security
2)Employee Ts and Cs
3)Taxable benefits
...each of which can legitimately have a different definition of the term.
Not quite.
The main issue about being 'on duty' is that it is at the behest of the employer. As such, it must be recorded for FTL purposes. If you are on duty, you can be required to be in uniform, you can use your ID to access the secure area, you can travel as supernumary crew. Not a problem!
If you are off duty, you cannot be required to be in uniform, you have no business using your ID to access the secure area of an airport without a ticket, and you most definitely can never be described as supernumary
CREW! ( The clue's in the name!) Being 'off' duty does not accrue FTL restrictions.
So midnight cruiser, and sunbird123, the pilots to whom you refer (working for an airline with a healthier regard to the law?) are no more, nor less than ticketed passengers, travelling on public transport. The fact they are also pilots is utterly irrelevant! For all the reasons I have quoted, they are off duty!
Why can't anyone answer the very simple question I have posed?
Are these FR pilots, who are travelling in uniform, using their ID to access the airport secure area, and listed as supernumary crew,
ON duty, or
OFF duty??
Either is fine! Attempting to be both is either duplicitous, or stupid! Each of which deserves to be dealt with appropriately.