Hotel security
Airport hotel security
With all due respect to seniorpilot in his thankless role as a moderator, I think there may have been an error of judgement in moving the thread about the Volga-Dnepr crew murdered in Bomako to the Freight Dogs forum.
Yes, anyone can access and continue the conversation in that Forum. However the basic issue is that these were off-duty airline crew who were killed while away from home because they were working. They were not, as the header for Freight Dogs says, using "the unglamorous parts of airports that many of us never get to see" - they were in a hotel that might equally well have been used by passenger flight pilots and cabin crew.
Freight Dogs forum is "for pilots and crew who operate mostly without SLF", so those who operate mostly WITH SLF aren't routinely going to follow the (by definition) more specialised conversations that, rightly, dominate it.
The Volga-Dnepr crew members weren't murdered because they were freight flyers. Many of us have flown freight at one time or another, it was my first command. Leaving the discussion under R&N might have stimulated some useful discussion of the issues of security at crew hotels which affect all of us. For example I for one was never happy about the routine practice of having crew hold bags collected by hotel bell-boys - hopefully that no longer happens.
So: is everyone happy that the hotels they stay pay any attention to the particular security issues that are generated by airline crew presence?