Originally Posted by
birmingham
What a lot of this debate highlights is just how enured people have become to airline "security" and how institutionalised some insiders are. When all is said and done the only justification for offering violence to a non-violent, perhaps difficult, even belligerent, individual is when the security of the aircraft, or the safety of others is compromised - period.
This was a commercial issue people.
The response of the United CEO is frankly breathtaking!
What was he thinking?
Exactly. There are some posters here who subscribe to the "this is the way we have always done it."
