here my last two flights,
Start from a airport in Asia ( name undisclosed, they may be terrorist reading
).
Whre you have to pass trough the metal detector while your bag are scanned( laptop stays inside the bag), Metal detector beeped as usual and I am cleared to proceed because I am airline crew in uniform.
Why should they x-ray my bag, as I just have to put the weapon on me????
Return flight, you go to the airline office, where the guy checked your ID and that your are in GenDec given to the authorities and that you are indeed who you said you are and then opens the door airside so you can proceed. NO checks at all because you are the crew on duty!! Before you wondered this is an United States airport controlled by our beloved TSA!!
Return to the States, other airport but same country, you have to remove, your jacket, your shoes,... of course your laptop have to be out of the bag, are you kidding!!, you have to passed three times through the detector because it is so sensitive, it probably detected the car in the parking lot.
Get frisked, no professionnaly, I could have hide a weapon easily and you wonder is this is really safer........No comment please, I know the answer
So I will not be accused of anti-americanism, here one about a north-italian airport, the crew have to stepped down the crew bus, to be x-ray, etc.. but guess what happens to the crew bus, it just enters by a side door, to pick you up again airside, no check of the drivers, no check of what inside the bus. I systematiquely "forget" to take my nav bag out of the bus, never once was I challenged. I have make so many report that I just xerox the old ones changing the date
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I am not opposed to safety, and the "I don't thrust anyone attitude", but then at least do it professionnaly and effectively. As long at it stay like that, I continue to think the security guards of the world are a bunch of incompetent, stupid lot on a power trip to try to make your life as miserable as theirs.
Sorry for the few guys doing their job correctly and really trying to improves things
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