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On the subject of inbound flights - I understand they have been cancelled if still on the ground as the stands at UK airports are now full.


Something was brewing on this yesterday. My wife visited central London from Leeds and commented last night on how many police cars were positioned on the M62 and major junctions en-route to Leeds, and then how many officers were at Leeds station lining the platforms - way more than the usual amounts. When we awoke to the news this morning it does match up, suggesting they were making a visible statement to anyone who might have been planning to get to an airport.

I'm with warkman on this, and since commandant Danny has banished us all to jetblast, I can say so too!:cool:

Im just thinking of the effect this is going to have on business over all - not just airlines and business men/women.

I send a lot of aircargo, and was supposed to send cargo with BA - hold space for handluaggage = less cargo holdspace? knock one effects of this means more shipping, means less availability. Chaos all round!

FT

Extra Police yesterday may well have been 'football' associated.

My post was tongue in cheek!! :ugh: :ugh:

I was lucky, I travelled from LHR and LGW yesterday...could have been a lot worse if i travelled today. I thinkif they banned hand luggage all together it would settle down in being the norm before long. No reason why people need to carry lotions in their hand luggage unless its for medicinal purposes.

Does that include systems like the one in LAX where somebody checks your ID at the foot of the escalator and somebody else checks it at the top?:D All I've done is travel 30ft in a straight line in the open, with nobody around me. What could I have possibly done in those intervening 10 seconds? T:mad: ts.

US security, especially the TSA, are thieving, incompetant- yet thouroughly officious- monkeys.

Uk Airport Chaos (hand wringing thread)
 

Whilst I realise that the contributers to Jet Blast are considered to be the lowest of the low and that our presence is only tolerated here, I think that the imposed title of this shifted thread is not only patronising but degrading also..

Onwards and Downwards. :mad:

Met Police several times in their press conference, communicated to community leaders.. community leaders.

WTF,

Surely with integration there is no community leader... after all, if it is a white British person they don't go and tell the priest do they ?

Serious comment btw. I understand that many "ethnic groups" are also unhappy with these so called and unelected "leaders".

I can see a huge increase in sales of professional metal camera cases....

funny, i always thought that food shelter and water were the essentials of life. never heard of a laptop being part of that group

Not at 0630 for the 0700 train.

Ah! Conceded!

BBC Radio Five have just highlighted the vulnerability of valuable items within checked baggage (and that travel insurance probably won't cover them). The light-fingered baggage handlers are going to have a field day (or two).

Danny check your inbox

To their credit, the Met haven't shot anybody today. But to quote Jack Palance in City Slickers "The day ain't over yet.":E

What some people seem to have missed here, is that terrorists are unlikely to board the aircraft with an assembled IED. So moving handbaggage to the hold would prevent assembly of said device. Key fobs/mobiles etc would more than likely have contained require electronics. Does that make sense? Or is it just me? :confused:

Quote from the TV news: "All those arrested are British born Muslims".
Why should we all suffer? Why not simply ban Muslims from taking bags onto the aeroplane? When they're inconvenienced like this, the majority of law abiding Muslims might then do something about the Islamonazi minority in this country. Maybe then the Muslim community 'leaders' and Imams may actually start to condemn those who preach hatred and start to rein them in. Before the liberals amongst you start accusing me of Islamophobia and the rest of the nonsense we have to put up with in this country, remember it's not Christians, Seikhs, Buddhists and the rest who are plotting to blow up aeroplanes and threatening death and destruction to the West. For a so called peaceful religion Islam is very big on death and killing.

I'd rather be a couple of hours late in this world than fifteeen years early in the next, so it's going to be a case of "put up or shut up" for the next few weeks.
If the threat is real, and nothing had been done and a couple of aircraft had been hi-jacked, then the Blair-kockers would really have something to bitch about.
Is your journey really necessary? Whatever happpened to video conferencing? Are a lot of the complaints coming from the "look at me, I'm so important my company sends me round the world to discuss the price of widgets" brigade?
Read the thread on the Mil. Forum about an expected raised threat level this month.

Hey warkman again !!

My problem exactly.

As my kit increases, I have been forced to by a rolling Resin Plastic case which now sits happily in the hold, but at about 10k value, what happens when it is nicked !!!!!

:mad:

Edited to add :- I understand exactly where you are coming from EPR Man. I was simply too afraid to raise the issue myself.

Profiling should be the watchword.