Budgie,
get a life.
Clinton warned the FAA about domestic security levels and the airlines bucked. We're happy to accept the consequenses, they said. We will be responsible for our own security! Now the airlines are in the mire big time.
Security audits found it unacceptable. The US based airlines just didn't want the expenditure.
Yes, the security threat this great nation is from foreign operators. All of us "Aliens" entering the US are treated like €rap - as if we were the biggest threat to US security imaginable.
I don't for a moment expect Wino and his US based mates to accept any of this - but then he was never viewed as a threat to the US.( unlike McVeigh).
To all of you US pilots out there:
Your domestic security levels were virtually non existent.
Two domestic US based airlines were hijacked within the US by terrorists resident in the US.
The hijackers were passengers, not crew on the flights concerned.
International secutity standards are way higher than those within the US.
The first reaction of your government was against international carriers operating into the US. (We can understand this, as the threat had not been clearly identified).
New security measures are anti non-US crew, treating us as the real threat, whilst we are the most exposed victims. Passengers are being subjected to far less scrutiny than crew.
The first airlines to be allowed to operate back into the US were the very same airlines that were involved in this atrocity.
Other airlines - i.e. non US based airlines were still grounded whilst AA and UA were let operate.
Other that favoritism, can any of you US pilots give a creditable reason for such prejudiced behavior?
Answers on a postcard before the next World War please, so please hurry.
P.S.
I am left with a clear picture:
It is all our fault. Yes the non-American - I don't know or care who you are but it's all your fault, and I don't care if we nuke you or whatever but someone - anyone - we don't really care, has to pay for it. We need our feel good factor.
[ 18 September 2001: Message edited by: tonyryan ]
[ 18 September 2001: Message edited by: tonyryan ]