Airport Security (Merged) - Effects on Crew/Staff

[ExSimGuy]

Flash8,

I have mentioned before that I get "profiled" (especially when American airlines are involved),despite being a "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant", due to;

1. Passport only 2 years old and already almost full of Mid-East stamps
2. Beard and dark skin (living in a sunny land and working outside a lot)

I too take it philosophically, and I do agree that "profiling", of any kind, makes us all safer - even if it's a little inconvenient for me. The security peeps are always polite, so I am too, and it is just part of travelling in today's world - especially when I admit that I could be a "suspicious profile". I'll live with it.

(Danny, Mods - this is a serious aspect of today's events. Could I suggest that it is a "matter that effects the working lives (and prospects!) of aircrew as well as airlines" and, as such is possibly better in here than in the ratehr "less respectful" halls of JB. Naturally any rants about security might be better "moved out )