Originally Posted by FlyingKat

It has been done before. You have to get the FAA to sign off on allowing FAs on the cockpit jumpseat as a training event. This was done at Independence Air and Jetblue I beleive. Its a win win for everybody. Pilots get access to FA jumpseat as long as there are no FAs on the jumpseat, and FAs get access to the cockpit jumpseat as long as no pilot is trying to get on that jumpseat as well. Plus it is a good training tool for FAs to see what happens up front and why we don't always answer as quickly as they would like sometimes.