Increased security for domestic flights

[swh]

Need to change the title “Increased security costs for domestic flights”

[morno]

Originally Posted by Icarus2001

What you mean like the baggage handlers and engineers do, perish the thought.

What is the point of screening with body scanners to make sure pointy things and blades bigger than 6cm are not taken on board when such tools are already on board? (I am being vague here for obvious reasons.)

The world trade centre attacks would not have been stopped by body scanners, read all about it.

I asked the security guys in Sydney about this one day. They didn't know what I was talking about and said that the baggage handlers go through security as well, it's just through a different entrance.

I know the engineers at my company went through security.

[Tankengine]

Originally Posted by morno

I asked the security guys in Sydney about this one day. They didn't know what I was talking about and said that the baggage handlers go through security as well, it's just through a different entrance.

I know the engineers at my company went through security.

Where do the security guys go through security? Who checks them ?
Let us not even consider racial profiling!

[Icarus2001]

They didn't know what I was talking about and said that the baggage handlers go through security as well,

Just because they believe that the baggage handlers go through does not mean that they do. The engineers definitely do not as they start their day at the hangar and then end up airside at the terminal in either a car, a tug or in an aircraft under tow.

As a related point, I went through Heathrow, Bangkok and KL in the last few weeks. I made a point of checking in the airside cafes and restaurants...some very nice kitchen knives in them, in the sterile area, not chained or housed, sitting on a bench.