Re: Security checks for crews are getting to the riduculous!
Since when was there a requirement to be wearing an ID when going through a PUBLIC screening point? Or when walking from that screening point to the aerobridge/gate? Airline IDs are for use in the AIRSIDE secure areas, ie, beyond the aerobridge, out on the tarmac, etc, and... arguably... when entering the the flight-deck.
Then again, why is it nobody ever checks the names on the IDs against an operating crew list prior to allowing them access to the aerobridge? That way you know that the bloke walking to the flightdeck is actually the bloke approved to take control of it! But no - far better to just confiscate his knitting needles in front of the public - THAT'LL fix the security problem.
Arrived on board a few days ago - half a dozen cleaners or caterers just sitting in J-Class, waiting for something (aircraft had been towed from domestic terminal to international). NOT ONE OF THESE PEOPLE HAD BEEN SCREENED EVEN ONCE DURING THE DAY. Brisbane International Airport, people. Any of them could have secreted something at one of those seats. (hypothetical, hushed, mobile phone conversation: "Which seat number did you get allocated?.... Ok.... No worries.... will leave the knife under that seat's cushion").
And no one seems to care, four years on from Sep 11.
No wonder there is no respect for security in Australia.