What does everyone else make of the new tight
security procedures?
My experience of it so far is that I'm not impressed. I got stuck in Florida after Sept 11 and operated a rescue flight back to London five days later (one of the first international flights to leave) and our flight engineer managed to get on the aircraft with a six inch knife in his flight case! I submitted an ASR, what is the use the x-ray staff need a good kick up the a**. On the other side of the coin they're going mad for incidentals, ie our whole crew were stopped and made hand in their ice tongs! I mean what are you going to do tong someone into letting you into the flight deck! in the mean time we have a cart onboard full of metal cutlery when are they going to get it right?
