Dubious Swiss Security? Victorinox rules!
From personal experience (relatives travelling over Christmas) this is true:
No problem about Victorinox knife kits (OK penknifes) in handbaggage for pax out of Zurich and Geneva - security turn a blind eye. When questioned they reply that all Victorinox kit is for sale in GVA and ZRH duty free shops and they are protecting world-famous and respected Swiss products. They would be bankrupted if Swiss security checks banned their products.
Do we just have a chuckle at the quaint Swiss or kick up a fuss at this flagrant and bizarre lapse of international security? Apart from the fact that these security-cleared pax can then filter into transit pax at other airports (my experience is LHR).
Bitter and twisted as my much-loved knife is languishing in a sack at LHR. (OK, OK I know that was careless).
Last edited by Capt Marble; 27th Dec 2002 at 06:44.