Airport Security Good or Bad?

ryanvsnow · Post by **ryanvsnow** » 18 May 2005, 22:03

If I was incharge of Airport Security the first move I would make would be to get rid of Airport Security (TSA who does the screening at the front door). Yes this would alow PAX to carry-on anything they wish. I don't believe that a terrorist would try to high-jack an A/C if they thought the PAX next to them had a gun.
Now I would still have Checked bag searches to eliminate bombs or anything else that would hinder air security.
I believe that the flight crew should be the first and last people on and off their A/C. The flight door would remain locked from the time before boarding till all Pax were off the A/C and could not be opened other wise.
The F/A should have no contact with the Flight-Crew exept with a button to push for an Emergency.
This, I believe, would help to keep our skies safer.

JDarby · Post by **JDarby** » 19 May 2005, 00:47

The 11 September terrorists did not need bombs to do the damege they did.

earthman · Post by **earthman** » 19 May 2005, 02:33

They did not need bombs; people still had the mindset that if they just stay calm, everything will turn out ok.

If terrorists tried the same thing now, they would not succeed.

That being said, I think 'airport security' is nothing more than a bad joke.

heathrow · Post by **heathrow** » 19 May 2005, 03:09

I think it's a good thing to have in case something goes wrong. The real police are needed elsewhere

ryanvsnow · Post by **ryanvsnow** » 19 May 2005, 04:06

earthman wrote:'airport security' is nothing more than a bad joke.

Thank You

livin737 · Post by **livin737** » 19 May 2005, 22:41

airport security irratates me very much
usually you could go right into minneapolis airport
(where you can be by the waiting gates+all of the restaurants are)but now you can't go in there anymore because of 9-11

heathrow · Post by **heathrow** » 20 May 2005, 01:35

yes. I was aprehended as a runaway by airport security. "I'm a spotter" doesn't do it for them. Sometimes they can piss me off

ryanvsnow · Post by **ryanvsnow** » 20 May 2005, 06:30

heathrow wrote:yes. I was aprehended as a runaway by airport security. "I'm a spotter" doesn't do it for them. Sometimes they can piss me off

Yea at CLT their are signs posted every 10 feet on any roads with visibility of the airport stating that its illegal to be parked there and violators are subject to prosecution.

chunk · Post by **chunk** » 20 May 2005, 10:33

POintless security - such as we see in the US nowadays - is a pain. Otherwise its a necessary evil - I would rather it be there than not. BTW - by pointless security I mean shoes off and laptops out?? Why does this only happen in the US?

ryanvsnow · Post by **ryanvsnow** » 20 May 2005, 19:11

heathrow wrote:yes. I was aprehended as a runaway by airport security. "I'm a spotter" doesn't do it for them. Sometimes they can piss me off

Better yet: Instead of doing drugs and being in street gang or raiding and looting, they would rather prosecute you for doing something productive and educational. It's a sorry world we live in.

livin737 · Post by **livin737** » 21 May 2005, 01:32

I wish it was like the old days

ryanvsnow · Post by **ryanvsnow** » 21 May 2005, 04:45

livin737 wrote:I wish it was like the old days

I share in your sympathy. I can remember as a child when my uncle, a mainline Piedmont Airlines Captain on a B732, would come into CLT we would meet him at the airport. He would let us sit in the cockpit. It was a blast.

livin737 · Post by **livin737** » 21 May 2005, 05:01

my dad always bought me a panda express
chinese food and we sat right where you
could see the airplanes takeoff or see lots of bagage handlers ......

heathrow · Post by **heathrow** » 22 May 2005, 16:58

ryanvsnow wrote:
livin737 wrote:I wish it was like the old days
I share in your sympathy. I can remember as a child when my uncle, a mainline Piedmont Airlines Captain on a B732, would come into CLT we would meet him at the airport. He would let us sit in the cockpit. It was a blast.

That sounds great! I'll never forget my first time in a cockpit. a QN L-1011, and then a QN 752!! Those were the days....

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