Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Are you saying that there should be no differentiation between how the seat belt signs apply to pax and F/As? How would that work?
If you read my original post I said that if the FAs continue meal/trolley service with hot drinks being served then the seatbelt light is obviously superfluous. If the FAs are merely doing a check that all belts are fastened then returning to their stations to strap in, then the seatbelt sign is likely to be real.
The more usual case is that the seatbelt light goes on and 3 hours later after a full meal service with hot drinks being passed over passengers, it is still on. Pax have every right to consider that it is meaningless. Those with 2 hour bladders will wait for the final trolley to pass and then visit the lavs and none of the FA's will stop them to tell them to return to their seats because the FA's don't believe the seatbelt light either.