Originally Posted by
DALFA
No offense, but isn't a F/A being on his/her phone during deplaning or taxi-in the same as pilots who leave the aircraft to get lunch or catch a commuter flight before all passengers are deplaned? Last I checked doesn't the FOM have something in there about that? Yet...i've never seen a F/A complain about it since it didn't cause any issues.
Actually they complain all the time. Just read your own rumor has it's every week and you'll almost always see something about pilots on there and it's usually wrong. The difference between us leaving the aircraft while passengers are still on board and the working FA's is the FAA requirement. We are not required by the FAA to be there.