Cuz I wanted a cigarette & the purser told me I was welcome to smoke in the cockpit that's not something I would do or even ask to do on any other airline but EGYPT airs been letting me do it for years (even into JFK which shocked me....but I still went

***before 9/11 as a F class passenger I was usually allowed to smoke in the cockpit on MH, CX & SQ (who had all just recently went non smoking so the thought of smoking on an airplane was not so strange. Even UA still allowed smoking on NRT flights up till 1997) but after 9/11 I hadn't been allowed ever again in the cockpit on those carriers (just MS). To the person who said it sounds like the 80's, no, more like even late 90's. BA used to let whichever Gold card holder that asked first sit in the cockpit on Concorde for take off & landing all the way till its last flights in 2000 or 2001. CX & MH were the easiest though, I was never turned down a jump seat for take off or landing until 9/11