B737-700
Flight Attendant Current
Situational Awareness
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Security; Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy; Human Factors; Manuals; Procedure
I stepped off the aircraft to use the restroom since we had 30 minutes before boarding. Operations was not around. I asked the lady at the desk (customer service) if she could let me back on to plane. She said you need to wait for the operations agent to return. I then texted the C Flight Attendant and asked her to please let me back on aircraft. She did. Five minutes later customer service came down questioning how I got back on aircraft and I told her. She then told me I can not do that and it could be a security breach. I was unaware that what I did was wrong but now I do.
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Flight attendant reported boarding an aircraft without an Operations Agent present; causing an inadvertent violation of company policy.