bjcc
Everyone in the UK may be screened but here in the land of Oz, where our PM has to breathe through is rectum, because his heads so far up George Dubya's, it's only pax & friends and
TECH/CABIN crew who are screened!!!!
I regularly arrive at
my aircraft to find that the catering supervisor has been seated in row 1 for up to half an hour, unsupervised, reading the paper. S/he hasn't been screened, neither has their van, nor have the catering loaders, or baggies, or engineers, or ramp staff, etc etc etc. Any other airline employee with an access card can legally bypass screening
unless they're boarding the aeroplane for the purpose of flight.
Now, others have stated that the screening is to stop 'pilots' from smuggling a weapon into the sterile area and then giving it to another person. If this reason was valid, then all persons would be screened.
This whole charade makes a mockery of the so called security measures, which I believe are only in place so that governments can fool "joe public", and them selves, that they're doing something.
