Originally Posted by
tommyleo
That said, perhaps the fear is that a terrorist will follow a flight crew into a hotel and get his hands on a uniform and ID.
That is the reason why the airline's don't want the information given out. ID's, uniforms and flight manuals. At my airline, we are specifically instructed not to throw away the replaced manual pages in our hotel room trash can when we do manual revisions at our hotels. We are suppose to bring those back to the airport and throw them away in the trash cans in the operations area.
FWIW, there have been a number of instances where uniforms and IDs have been stolen from hotel rooms while flight crews were out at dinner, working out, etc. Such incidents are discussed in our recurrent security training and the specific information about them are distributed to the various airlines when it occurs.