I do hope they don't go silly with the security now. I love operating from Italy because of the Italian attitude to life. I would much rather operate from FCO than anywhere in Britain.
If today is anything to go by, I wouldn't worry. We went through another large Italian airport today, although admittedly through the staff channel. The belt appeared to have broken on the x-ray machine, so having stood around for a while, scratching their heads, they sent us all through the arch, cases and all. No bag checks, no ID checks and no questions!
Now if we could just cross the Italian security system with the jumped up little
at Manchester that are, according to two separate ground staff at MAN, deliberately picking on crew and are now using extortion to supposedly "raise" money for charity, then we might end up with something half sensible!