Hi
I dont' know if I am in the right forum...but I was wondering if anyone knows the policy of going between First Class and coach during flight.
Can a person come up from coach to chat for a minute with someone in FC and vice versa?
I know they discourage it, but it is an actual policy? I have seen lots of people come up to FC to use the bathrooms when they have announced to use your own cabin bathroom and the FA don't say anything?
Thanks!

You are suppose to stay in your own cabins. Every airline is different with enforcing thier own set policy... Continental tends to be a little more serious...

-Vincent

I was on an American flight (international) once not too long ago and the woman sitting next to me in Coach kept trying to go to 1st/Business to talk to her husband and the FAs kept sending her back to Coach.

Thanks Vincent
This is on Alaska Airlines. I'm not sure how they handle it?
The truth is we are going to have some older children a few rows back in coach while we are in FC. So if needed, I repeat only if needed we would be able to go back really quick or if they needed to come up for a moment.

I think going back is generally OK. I'd just try to wait until the FAs are done with whatever service they are doing so that I wasn't in the way.

That's true. Good point.
They usually take their places and "do their time" after everyone has eaten and served their drinks.
Thanks!

Nice husband...

Ha-ha-ha! I was thinking the same thing!

And how was Mrs. BenjaminNYC?

Seems like when I'm in BIZ, people can and go as they please - to talk, to the lav, etc. When I'm in coach, it seems the cabin police are in full force.

Are such children of an age that they would be required by the airline to be categorized as unaccompanied minor if you were not with them? Or are they older?

Some airline reps have told some passengers that one "adult" must be ticketed/checked-into the same cabin as a child who could otherwise be categorized as an unaccompanied minor and would thus require an associated charge -- for unaccompanied minor -- if such charge were applicable. Is this true or is this something that airline employees say to reduce the traffic between the cabins and/or to get parents to take responsibility for their children by making claims that may not be official?

The policies and practices vary by airline, by cabin or cockpit crew, and even by FAM from time to time. There is no hard and fast rule enforced .... as is evident by cross-cabin bathroom visits even within a given airline on a given route.

I always liked the "stay in your own cabin" policy. It represents an appropriate response to the financial strain of many terrorist groups, as well as their hierarchical structure. It is well known that only the cell leaders get to fly F these days. Stop movement between cabins, and you do more to impede communication than can be achieved by aerial bombings of even the most remote Afghan villages.

LOL
Yes...maybe they can share their peanuts with the Air Marshalls.
I do find it silly when the flight attendant stands at the front of FC when the pilot gets food or goes to the bathroo.
That FA will surely be an deterent to anyone trying to rush the cockpit. And she hides the "goings on" very well.

That's what I thought at first, too, but after seeing how she treated the FAs (she actually woke me up twice with her yelling at them) and the little tantrum she threw after we landed, I can understand how her husband might welcome the break he had from her.