Originally Posted by
NYC96
Interesting. You call it playing a security card, while the airline industry instituted it after 9-11 because the terrorists quickly gained control of those flights. All gaining access to the cockpits. GRANTED, the doors are re-enforced now. But, pilots do come and go from the cockpit.
Secondly, by the way you word your accusation, you blame the flight attendants for enforcing what YOU perceive as a no security issue.
Apparently you arent aware that the TSA instructed the industry to enforce this policy:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB108552796651521354.html
The Transportation Security Administration told airlines in December to police gatherings of passengers on planes for possible security risks, especially near cockpit doors. Since then, different airlines have interpreted that recommendation differently. And frequent travelers say airline crews often unilaterally go further these days, even outright barring passengers from standing in the aisles and the galleys in the back of the plane.
(another case of we dont make the rules, but we're required to enforce them)
Please calm down and read what you're commenting on before you enter rant mode.
The discussion to which I referred was about one passenger entering a galley. Period.
Nothing was near cockpit doors. Nobody was congregating. Nobody was gathering. The FA to whom I spoke agreed that it was not a security issue. (I was there. I don't think you were.)
You hit the nail on the head when you say that airline crews "often unilaterally go further." That's part of the problem, right there. They are required to enforce the rules, but they are not required to make up their own more restrictive rules. If they decide to make up their own new ones, they are not required to call them "security."
Now can we please get back to the interview the OP expects to have, instead of going off-topic to justify something we might just feel a little bit sensitive about?