Wow, Huck, you're sensitive, aren't you?
The main thrust of this thread is that the UK government has been asking British airlines about pilots of non-British origin.
If the US government has also been asking European airlines about pilots of 'Middle Eastern origin' or whatever isn't that equally reprehensible? In fact, if anything there is an extraterritorial nature about the US request which is not present in the UK government's asking its own airlines about non-UK pilots, making it more reprehensible.
That's if either of these rumours are indeed true, which they may not be.
As for the silly whingers who have latched onto this to bring up the usual moan about 'colonials' etc. working in Britain, well, that is so pathetic that it doesn't even warrant a response.
[ 30 October 2001: Message edited by: foghorn ]