security UK please read!!
it is now a joke and i am getting really pissed!!!! everyday going through security at LHR in full uniform with crew, being treated as suspects by foreigners (no offence meant, dont know how else to bet the message accross) and then to get things like toe clippers taken off me or a pair of tweesers!!
these idiots are meant to be protecting me, i dont know why this is such a risk, here i am in full uniform about to operate the aircraft, they take my tweesers off me and i have an axe in the cockpit??
then engineers walk past (probably contracters) with stanley knives, plyers etc etc.
then doing meet and greeting at the door, to come across umbrellas, big bags and artifacts and then the best the other day, a 3 ft sumarai sword!!!! yes, tagged to be put in the hold by ground agents when boarding, got through 2 security points and then it was the honesty of the person to give it to us to put in the hold. what if they then concealed it on boarding, i dont even have my clippers anymore to defend myself!!
please, i wish the security would ease up on us a little and be more realistic, why there is 6 staff to check us (operating crew) and only 4 at the public entrance of security is beyond me.