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'excellent' security? You need to read some of the reports. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11882430/ is the most recent test I could find, from 2006, but I don't think it's really gotten better. The whole industry could be used as a case study in how *not* to handle problems. Most of the security procedures don't provide any protection, but they certainly create opportunities to PO customers. I do NOT understand why the airlines do this. (And I firmly believe that it is the airlines. If they actually cared, they would be lobbying the TSA-and higher-to change the rules so they could treat their customers better.) |
The last flight I took, back in September, there were two "security" lines. In one (mine, unfortunately) the guy at the desk was examining everyone's driver's licenses etc minutely, using some kind of blue light. The guy at the other desk was basically waving people through.
Remember box cutters? My thought then & now was that the best security we could have was not to ban box cutters, but issue them to everyone who boards a plane.
If I were a terrorist with a bomb, I'd detonate it at the security checkpoint. (Shhh!)
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Personally, I've refused to fly anywhere for the last 4 years-and the last time I did fly it was because our car broke down on the way out of town. It was either fly to our destination or let the concert tickets (and other pre-paid costs) go unused.
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If I have a choice, I don't fly. It's getting to the point that if I don't have a choice, I don't fly. At work, I try to avoid all assignments that would require me to fly. And when I retire, I'll have the time to take alternate modes of transportation.