Canada to US. NO carry on bags allowed
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Quote: "I have no problem with traveling in a paper bathrobe, with all my stuff checked, and my clothes checked, and my glasses held in escrow by that cabin attendant with the fuzzy face. PROVIDED the airline doesn't tell me on arrival that my Armani and Nikon and Rolex have got thiefrowed.
I don't think checking pro cameras or laptops is really an option anymore, with a 1% "loss" rate on luggage per flight, anyone taking 10 trips a year (20 flights) is basically uninsurable.
The issues with carry-ons are a direct result of the refusal of the airlines to deal with the unreliability of the checked luggage pipeline.
Edmund"
Checked bags should be tracked by bar code and signed for by responsible persons from check in at the departure airport through all transfers and stages to final collection by the rightful owner at the destination airport. The owner/pax would have to provide ID to ensure that the bags are not taken by someone else. There might be objections to this from those who profit from or are part of a baggage theft ring!
I don't think checking pro cameras or laptops is really an option anymore, with a 1% "loss" rate on luggage per flight, anyone taking 10 trips a year (20 flights) is basically uninsurable.
The issues with carry-ons are a direct result of the refusal of the airlines to deal with the unreliability of the checked luggage pipeline.
Edmund"
Checked bags should be tracked by bar code and signed for by responsible persons from check in at the departure airport through all transfers and stages to final collection by the rightful owner at the destination airport. The owner/pax would have to provide ID to ensure that the bags are not taken by someone else. There might be objections to this from those who profit from or are part of a baggage theft ring!
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You'd cancel a holiday because you have to put your hand bags in the hold for one sector?
They, the staff on duty, then told me it was impossible for my bags to fly without me. L
ars. Remember, I've landed from the trans-Atlantic, and had possession of my hold baggage for more than a few minutes.
There were my bags, 20 hours into the journey, sitting at destination - where they'd been for several hours. Unattended, and in public place. They had in them the total collection of old photos, that I couldn't get in the cabin. I'd just given in on the difficulties, and trusted someone - just that one time.
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This career is just getting to be a pain the the rear. We as crew deal with this on a constant basis.
I wish someone with a commonsense practical approach would get hold of the helm in the decision making process in security
Short of everyone being checked naked, there will always be an element of risk. Just as there is a risk driving to work. It cannot be eliminated completely.
Time to work on my Resume, with a bit of BS so I can do a different job!
Evy
I wish someone with a commonsense practical approach would get hold of the helm in the decision making process in security
Short of everyone being checked naked, there will always be an element of risk. Just as there is a risk driving to work. It cannot be eliminated completely.
Time to work on my Resume, with a bit of BS so I can do a different job!
Evy
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Time to work on my Resume, with a bit of BS so I can do a different job! 
Yeah, such as work for airport security, or would that require more than just a BIT of BS!
As a deterent to these terrorists maybe the "West" should look to the Chinese for answers. The recent public outcry from Western liberal politicians and celebrities about the drug smuggler who was executed in China has suddenly died down. Case closed!
Compare that to the treatment the "alleged" hijacker recieved on landing in Detroit. He was rushed off to a public hospital where he was treated for his injuries and given medical care that millions of Americans are denied because of their health system. Now he is being "looked after" by the govt and the US taxpayer will pay a lot of money to lawyers and a legal process that will drag on for years in order to make sure he is given a fair trial. He and all the other would-be terrorists are just like that drug smuggler in China. They intend to kill and ruin the lives of many innocent people and should be dealt with accordingly.
In the meantime a message to airport security people worldwide.
Profiling WORKS!!
Yeah, such as work for airport security, or would that require more than just a BIT of BS!
As a deterent to these terrorists maybe the "West" should look to the Chinese for answers. The recent public outcry from Western liberal politicians and celebrities about the drug smuggler who was executed in China has suddenly died down. Case closed!
Compare that to the treatment the "alleged" hijacker recieved on landing in Detroit. He was rushed off to a public hospital where he was treated for his injuries and given medical care that millions of Americans are denied because of their health system. Now he is being "looked after" by the govt and the US taxpayer will pay a lot of money to lawyers and a legal process that will drag on for years in order to make sure he is given a fair trial. He and all the other would-be terrorists are just like that drug smuggler in China. They intend to kill and ruin the lives of many innocent people and should be dealt with accordingly.
In the meantime a message to airport security people worldwide.
Profiling WORKS!!
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Stupid Canadian rules
Just so everyone gets it right, these dumba$$ rules were insisted upon by the good folks in Bubbaland's NHS; and we, spineless as ever in matters a la Bubba, acquiesced immediately.
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we, spineless as ever in matters a la Bubba, acquiesced immediately.
Looks like we need to restrict travel from London as well:
NYT: Nigerian ?influenced? by time in London? - The New York Times- msnbc.com
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It was a CIA/Mossad/NWO set-up. Get it? The global terror index was dropping too low. Time to inject more fear. Listen to Alex Jones at Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!, and hear the real-live witnesses not mentioned in the MSM. (Main-stream-media.)
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Cabin crew problems
Evyjet, - I certainly sympathize with you (I assume you are cabin crew.) What chance do you stand in enforcing these ludicrous "regulations?" NON. All that is going to happen is that passengers are going to get so pissed off, - and you are going to have to take the brunt of it. Totally absurd. I wish you and your colleagues well in this increasingly insane world of air-travel.
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One more thing.
Your head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, still thinks the 9/11 bombers came from Canada.
She really needs to stop listening to Glen Beck, and Russ Limbaugh, and Bill O'Reilly, and Ann Coulter, and, ...
... ah hell, forget it, it's hopeless.
Your head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, still thinks the 9/11 bombers came from Canada.
She really needs to stop listening to Glen Beck, and Russ Limbaugh, and Bill O'Reilly, and Ann Coulter, and, ...
... ah hell, forget it, it's hopeless.
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@ yobbo- nice link, and I sadly have to agree with the basic principles involved.
I have sympathy for the millions of perfectly decent Muslims of many nationalities who may be affected, but we need to remember that it's not white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who are running a terror campaign.
I have sympathy for the millions of perfectly decent Muslims of many nationalities who may be affected, but we need to remember that it's not white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who are running a terror campaign.
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"Crap" Mr Dixon?? Then you obviously agree with the decade old,time wasting practise of targeting wheel-chair bound Anglo-Saxon grandmothers and their 2 year old great grandchildren but not 20-35 year old males of Middle Eastern origin. Perhaps the staff at Stifhol CAN be convinced.
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You'd cancel a holiday because you have to put your hand bags in the hold for one sector? That's a "knee a jerkin'" if ever I saw one!!!
Andy