Originally Posted by
FlyingKat
Exactly. Hit the call button, and ask the working FA to call the flight deck and tell them you noticed some ice on the wing. That will get their attention everytime and unless they are stupid, they will get a deice. I've seen it plenty of times where you preflight and no frost. Then as the sun comes up the temperature dips and frost everywhere. You don't know the condition of the airplane when it was preflighted. Kudos to the crew for turning around and deicing once the frost was brought to their attention.
Had this scenario happen, but it was dusk. Walk around was done as the sun was going down, 20-30 minutes later we push, Ramp guy asks if we need deice due to frost (CRJ so wing top is visible to wing walkers). The CA and I looked at each other and we hadn't notice frost anywhere on the plane. I walk to the back and look at the wings and sure enough frost had started forming on the outer 3-4 feet of the wing. We deiced.
It happens. Good thing the ramper didn't get on the ramper web board and start blasting us, and demanding to know who we were, or may he did and I just don't know about it!