How typical of United
Their psycho paranoia strikes again. Why is it that everytime this forum gets a new thread because some FA went haywire over a so-called 'security issue', it's always United
Originally Posted by
sba110
No, there's a few options, the first is to make an emergency landing anywhere close by. In that case, you _will_ be met by local LEOs and the FBI, and you won't be happy for the next few hours. If you do cause a major disturbance in flight, you also run the risk of on-board police arresting you on the spot.
Even if you're in the right, you won't win in this situation. There's too much overreaction on part of everybody else. If you're ok with being held for a day or two, then by all means, go ahead, but I don't think it'd worth it?
And if all this happens because someone took a hobbiest photo of an aircraft cabin, then everyone involved is going to look like the complete bunch of stupid idiots that they are.
Originally Posted by
aluminumdriver
...Additionally, there is a security issue with people taking pictures of say the cockpit door, or taking pictures when the door is open and pilots are entering/exiting, stuff like that.
...I know I would be irked if someone took my photo in a plane without permission.
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Here we go again with nonsense security issues. What in the world is someone going to with a photo of the flight deck door or a photo of crew going in and out of the open flight deck? Do you honestly think that these photos would become the basis of "Operation 9/11 Redo"? Please.
People take photos of airplanes, airports, interiors, seats, cabins, cockpits, wings, engines and everything else under the sun - and that's why airliners.net has a massive photo database which doesn't even include the millions of photos taken around the world that never make it on that site.
I regularly take photos of my seat, meals, cabin and record take-offs and landings from interesting airports. I frequently take photos out the window of the ground below. Just this Monday I took photos of the seats on Air Canada to compare with the Y seats on CO - wow, the FA didn't throw a fit. I remember a thread here a few years ago about a FA (I can't remember if it was UA or AA) who threw a fit when the poster was caught taking photos OF THE GROUND AND CLOUDS while in flight! Oh the security threat! Oh heavens!
People on board an aircraft have no expectation of privacy, they are in a public space - so they are fair game to have their image recorded, either by the airline, the government or someone taking photos.
If the airline wants to prohibit the taking of photos on their property (which is only enforceable ON their property, meaning inside the cabin - they can't stop you from taking pictures OF their property from a public space), such a policy needs to be published in a clear and accessible place. I believe the other paranoid airline known as AA publishes their policy in the inflight magazine somewhere. Best takeaway - don't give these chicken-little airlines your business. Fly someone else and snap photos to your hearts content. There isn't anything worthwhile to photograph in a UA cabin anyway, unless you're flying LAX to SYD and want pictures of their nasty 80 yr old flight attendants doing service with walkers.
Also, no airline employee can forcibly delete a photo, confiscate your camera or force you to comply with a demand to view your photos.
Lesson learned - take your business elsewhere. Continental, for example, has no published prohibition on inflight photography.