My neighbor and good friend is a commercial pilot. The best time to ask them anything is while at cruising altitude. That is the point they tend to be quite bor

My neighbor and good friend is a commercial pilot. The best time to ask them anything is while at cruising altitude. That is the point they tend to be quite bored and are playing games or reading books like everybody else. Even if the FA's had contacted the pilot (which obviously they did, just with a different "issue"), there would have been no danger to the flight. If something is going wrong up front, they won't answer the cabin phone. Using "they wanted to ask the captian" as a tacit way of approving this behavior is just wrong.