the kind of screening we currently have is essentially a power trip for the security guards to try and humiliate pilots in front of the travelling public thereby giving themselves some sort of elevated status.
Has anyone else noticed that when you
are screened in a private area away from the passengers, there is a totally different air and a lot less hassle? Playing to the gallery, methinks!
no one has explained to me what is there to actually stop me or any other pilot or member of cabin crew from secreting the crash axe on our person and slipping back out to the departure lounge and handing that weapon over to someone with real malevolent intent who has already been screened
Good point!
Oh, for a lottery win and to leave it all behind.