First of all, thank you those who have acknowledged a passenger's concern. True, there is no one hundred percent security on any flight. However, should we just shrug our shoulders over the fact, or can we do something to improve the security of our industry? We are in an industry that is, more than ever before, under the watchful eyes of the public. The media, in a sad way, is exploiting weaknesses of our security systems for a story. What's behind this is the public's concern for their safety when they board a flight, and as we have seen our industry is highly vulnerable to the passenger's perceptions. Just one weakness, one incident, one thing that will lead to the perception that we are not doing whatever we can to make our flights secure and the industry will suffer the consequences. I do not mean to isolate LX in this context. All airlines are in the same boat here, what hurts one will hurt another. And no, security is not a joke as one poster has mentioned. Perhaps we will have to arrive at a stage where we will have no glass bottles on board anymore one day. If we ask our passengers not to bring things that might pose a risk we should be doing all we can to show that we take security very seriously. Ok, as someone has put it, there might be more urgent concerns than needles. If so, which are those, and why not bring them up (here, for instance)? It may take many small steps, but only awareness will take us there.
Please keep me posted on the reaction at Swiss over the needles.
Rgds and Thanks