Originally Posted by
ExXB
What we experience is theatrics, not a lot more.
I worry more about the ubiquitous lithium batteries allowed on the plane than about Grandma's fingernail file or Uncle Joe's penknife. Many have already shown here that there are ways around the security system that nobody is doing anything about.
As I've always said, if you want the best safety then look at whoever has the best safety record and follow their lead. One smallish country has always had to deal with this, being in the midst of many who hate them. They've provably done better with this than all the rest.If you want to fly with them, you plan on answering questions and on spending lots of time being checked over and into thoroughly by humans trained to look for problem people, not hidden hatpins. Inconvenient? Maybe, but all the folks living there know that it's far more inconvenient to be a victim of a preventable act. You want the best flight safety? Ditch the theatrics and do what's truly effective. The time will come when bad things happen in the air again- I can see many ways to do it that will get past all the current screening and safety procedures. What then- add another item or category to the prohibited list and tell me (yet again) that it's safe to fly now that you're doing all this? I don't and won't believe it, not this time and not the next either. Not until you do it as well as XX-XX does.