>>2886690
Because air travel is a mode of transportation not an amusement park for the little shits on board

>>2886691
On a long flight, pilots must be bored when up in the air doing barely anything for hours. It would be nice to welcome passengers into the cockpit, like in the old days.

>>2886690
Aeroflot Flight 593

Admittedly that also involved supremely incompetant pilots

>>2886690
You can usually get a peek after a flight is over.

You can't do it while airborne because even if the kid isn't a terrorist, the parent might be, or at least might be a nutcase.

>>2886696
>The cockpit voice recorder revealed the presence of the relief captain's teenaged children in the cockpit at the time of the accident.
The kid who caused the crash was the son of one of the pilots. That was all a result of Russian alcoholism and family values, not of a random kid visiting the cockpit. The pilot would have let the kid in with or without such a rule.

>>2886690
>very zealous security process
In which airport? Most of the ones I travel through they barely even give a fuck. It's more a formality than anything.
>>2886693
Have you flown recently? Nobody talks to strangers on airplanes anymore. They all just take naps, stare at the goyscreen, or zone out. Only one time on a flight I was seated next to an American boomer returning to his Filipina wife in Mindanao after completely closing out his life in America, bank accounts and all. Next to him was another guy visiting the Philippines on business. I snuck six shot bottles of vodka into my carry-on, drank them after takeoff, then we three chatted off and on throughout the flight.