Originally Posted by FWAAA
That is odd. I fly AA and in the last five years, I've seen the drink cart used to block the door probably every time.
I find that crews are getting lax about it. On today's DCA-DFW flight, the flight deck door was open for 90 seconds while the first officer and two flight attendants discussed something. None of them were looking at the passengers; two had their backs to us and the other was 3/4 turned away.
While I think the risk was negligible, this is clearly the kind of situation one would want to exploit.