Originally Posted by Danny
Having just arrived in MCO I was astounded at the pathetic decision making behind this current security fiasco.
For example, flight crew passing through LGW cannot take a pen! Yes, you read it correctly, we cannot carry a pen of any type on our person or in our crew bags.
Madness. As I pointed out in
this earlier post, this is contrary to the guidelines issued by BALPA.
In particular the fact that essential crew items should be permitted, whilst subject to a hand search if not possible to x-ray. The muppets doing this obviously feel they don't have the time... Which leads me to the other disparity, that Crew should have their own dedicated screening channels.
These failures and inconsistencies by BAA need to be reported on each occasion. (I quite like the idea of taking a copy of the guidlines with you to beat the muppet over the head with).