Originally Posted by
Custardthecat
All irrelevant. Whether you are having a cup of coffee, eating, sleeping, shopping or whatever (waiting in line) in your rest period is not the issue. Waiting in a line is just another everyday human activity, many of which must be performed (even during 'rest' time)
I will slow it down for you a bit as you don't seem to get it.
If a crew is on a minimum rest overnight and have, say a 10:00am, report time they can't get there any earlier than 10:00 because doing so would violate their minimum rest requirements and make them illegal to operate. Arriving later would cause the flight to depart late.
Therefor it is necessary that they arrive exactly at and not before report time. The only way to do this is to cut the security lines.