Newsstand - Passenger unhappy with airline treatment

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/493749.html


Flight crew are using threats of removal from a plane, jail and grilling by customs officials too casually, a Halifax man says after a bad experience on a plane last weekend.
Gabor Lukacs, a Dalhousie University math professor, was boarding a small Air Canada Jazz plane Sunday in Boston, on his way back from a conference in North Carolina, when his trouble began.

"Mr. Lukacs said none of the threats or special attention was necessary for a dispute that was always civil and far from violent.

"It really discredited the whole security issue," he said."

Falsely using "security" as an excuse for other issues should earn offenders a pink slip from the airline industry.

Falsely using "security" as an excuse for other issues should earn offenders a pink slip from the airline industry.

And a trip to the pokey.

Ever since 9/11/2001, "security" has been used as a blanket excuse for a wide range of idiotic new "safeguards" and the wasting of many, many millions of dollars. Unfortunately these processes do nothing to increase safety and have resulted in "security warnings" being largely ignored. Sadly this makes it much more difficult to take an actual threat seriously (if and when one is actually identified).

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Any airline person can use the "security" trump card whenever he wants without any fear of reprisal, so it's not much of a surprise that we hear these stories of threats against pax made pretty regularly.