These restrictions really are madness - and the way they are implemented totally OTT.
Once you are airside how easy would it be to pick something up from an A/C on stand '169' that came in from OAKB the day before and place it neatly on a SKD carrier to AGP on stand '36'...... (ex dispatcher here! ...).
You can still buy all the Congac you like from the Duty free bars and take it into the toilet with a cigarette lighter.......
Catering trucks...... they drive all happily sealed up airside....anyone really know whats in the middle of those double carts or cannisters that were loaded out in the industrial estates?
The list goes on - the issue is the way that aircrew/dispatch/loaders etc are treated like potential terrorists. Dont forget, our merry friends at the BAA; 'we' pay your salaries! Sometimes a little courtesy would go a long way.
But have a look in those wonderful BAA airside shops where you buy 100ml bottles of shaving lotion etc......or water at extortionate (how you spell that again? lol) prices.
Its a con boys and girls....... a con.................
Ok - I feel better now I have aired all that!
