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That's my point, it shouldn't have been legal to take such things on board. The regs changed before any flights took off after 9/11. Now you are apparently advocating not tightening regulations for employees until there has been one "issue".

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Bingo!

Have they though? I know of at least 2 airports that don't have permanent staff checks. Mine. Granted it's regional, but that shouldn't matter, and one of Chicago's major airports. The TSA do spot checks, but that's it. Also, you're right about LHR staff with extreme views. Some of them, worryingly, were collegues of mine when I worked insecurity. We also had 2 WDF staff go to Israel to be suicide bombers.

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Well they have wised up so yes things are better than they were but not as they should be. Even in the UK there wasn't checks at all airports, Northolt civil terminal being one that I knew off. I use to clear flights in and out of there and they were only subject to random checks and then usually by SB, or RAF staff. One day the US will get hit again and it will probably be staff in it somewhere.

One of your colleagues I knew very well. He was considered one of the most serious threats to UK aviation at that time, and BAA would not take his airside pass away as it was only intelligence and he hadn't done anything. That level of stupidity is on both sides of the pond.

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That's BAA all over LOL.

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I am sure they would have been banned had the authorities though a group of people would use box cutters to overtake a plane, its not always possible to regulate everything in advance.

We have a 2 tier system in Canada, work at a major airport like Vancouver the government does a background check that takes months and months sometimes, luckily people can work before the background comes back provided they have an escort, but smaller airports with commercial service, just a basic police record check done at the local police station.

While we have a federal agency CATSA they don't employ the guards, everything is contracted out to private companies like Garda and others, although they all wear a standardized uniform across the country to give the illusion they work for CATSA.

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Agreed, but you still shouldn't leave gaping gaps in the security system, and giving anyone an exemption from airside screening is going to create a risk. If you exempt large numbers of relatively low level workers the risk that, because of anti-discrimination policies, you will get an employee who is vulnerable to radicalization is fairly high, never mind the apparently smaller risk of conversion and radicalization of a white employee.

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Seems Seattle's airport is growing faster then they can expand. They will start to use buses to get people to remote area's for their flights.



Exclusive: Space-squeezed Sea-Tac to use buses to get passengers to planes - Puget Sound Business Journal

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The LGW-CLT British Airways flight used to arrive at/ leave from LGW at a remote parking bay, with passengers bussed to/from it.

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Drunk passenger on a BA flight tries to open the door during flight.

Intoxicated Passenger Tries to Open Exit Door Mid-Flight, Airline Says - ABC News

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ISIS claims to have brought the Russian plane in Egypt down with a soda can bomb.

Islamic State group releases picture of bomb it says downed Russian plane over Egypt | CTV News

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I'm kind of intrigued what the pineapple soda is like.

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Flat, I would imagine.

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I wonder if government's will snap judgement and ban airlines from serving soda and other non-clear drinks in containers that are not clear, leaving mostly just water to serve?

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or vodka or gin with tonic

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I bought a glass bottle of root beer "air side" yesterday, so a handy source of a knife substitute for anyone looking for such a thing to take on board. :rolleyes: