DA,
I sympathise. We're introducing the same. But here's a few thoughts..
After all, passengers joining an aircraft have been through a supposedly rigorous system of security checks, right ?!
Are you sure? Is that true everywhere you go? and Ground staff...at all your destinations?
Also, what with Disclosure Scotland, et al , all the staff who work airside, e.g. engineers, aircraft cleaners, caterers, etc, are supposedly ‘security vetted’ and, similar to the passengers, these staff also have to pass through a supposedly rigorous system of ‘security’, right ?!
Again...Disclosure Scotland just tells you that someone hasn't got an unspent criminal record...nothing else. What level of " Security Vetting" is done on cleaners in , say , Corfu?
Six Jackets per crew member....so thats 18 for us.....on 148 seats. It's sampling really , isn't it. So definately smacks of " loophole in Crew Security checks that needs closing with a signature to blame someone if it all goes wrong"