Deadheading refers to crewmembers, including flight attendants and pilots, who are being repositioned as part of their assigned trip. That is, they're flying as passengers while on duty. It's unclear when or how this term originated.
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Pilots and flight attendants are considered to be on duty when they're deadheading and are usually given their full pay, even though they don't have to actively work on the flight.
(d) No pilot may fly more than 32 hours during any seven consecutive days, and each pilot must be relieved from all duty for at least 24 consecutive hours at least once during any seven consecutive days. (e) No pilot may fly as a member of a crew more than 100 hours during any one calendar month.
Yes, airline pilots can go to the toilet during a flight. In fact, they have their own private lavatory in the cockpit that is separate from the passenger cabin.
All-in-all, the cabin crew can sleep on the plane and during the stopovers, which are usually 24 hours long and can be up to 2 days or more. Thus allowing the crew to not only rest but relax and visit the place they have the layover.
Flight attendants are not paid for boarding to help airlines save money and lower ticket and in-flight purchases for customers. Traditionally most airlines have conducted business this way.
The most common form of professional travel for a pilot is called deadheading – a term that encompasses a crew member, on duty, riding in the passenger cabin on his or her airline or another airline, to be repositioned to an airport for the purposes of commanding another flight.
Southwest has the highest published hourly flight attendant rate on the pay scale, but you can't exactly calculate flight attendant pay by block hour because Southwest pays their flight attendants TFP (Trips For Pay).