tipping point
We have now reached a tipping point on the security issue, at one time any questioning of the workings of airport security would be dismissed and the person treated with utter contempt by the security authoritys (the BAA took three months to answer a letter detailing mis-conduct by security staff)
The latest list of banned items for flight crew are so restrictive that the press have "locked on" to the supidity, on sunday on a BBC radio show the chattering classes talked about the issue, when the likes of M Portillo start talking about aircrew security then it has hit a cord with the public.
What the industry has to do is keep this in the public eye, BALPA are doing there bit but you to can help when you are doing a PA to the PAX tell them that due to the stupid regulations the cabin crew dont look there best !.
This pressure is the only way that we will get things changed and free the security staff from the hunt for nail clippers and lipstick and let then spend more time in the search for explosives and detornators.
My issue is not with the front line security staff it is with the half witted idiots who issue the orders, it is clear that the management of the BAA has not the first idea of day to day airline opps and see's us as just the providors of customers for the shopping arcades that they run.
I we as the flying staff come a very poor third in the BAA managements eyes after the shopping profits and covering them selfs by banning things that we need to safely do the job to avoid even the remotest risk to being seen to have a "security breach"
Last edited by A and C; 22nd Aug 2006 at 08:33.