Originally Posted by
AltoCumulus
It wasn’t the emergency lights since those are shut down immediately upon arrival. It was the LED lights on the Boeing Sky interior airplanes. If you turn off the utility switch the cabin lights turn off. This should be paid, however our company got our MEC to agree that this could be part of our debrief time.
The Airbus manual says the emergency lights can not be turned off(disarmed) until the last guest is off of the airplane. The emergency lights are an item on the securing checklist. Therefore the security checklist can not be completed until the last guest has deplaned.
One qualifier of the Block In definition in our CBA(Section 2: Definitions) states pay will continue until the pilots are allowed to leave the airplane. Logic would follow that the pilots are not allowed to leave the airplane until the securing checklist is complete when that checklist is required.