He's not the spokesperson. John Parrott is the airport director. Good guy, too. (I just wish he had more authority over the sometimes infuriatingly mall-cop-syndrome-suffering Anchorage airport police.)

More details on a thread in the AS forum: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/alask...ormal-ops.html

One observation: the ADN reports that Friesema claims to have stated something "more to the effect of 'what if my friend's bag has a bomb in it?'" That's actually a legitimate question, even if a slightly dumb one to ask at an airport. That kind of changes the whole tenor of the debate. The airlines used to make such a big deal of asking you if you had packed your bag yourself and if anyone else had had access to your bag since you packed it. For them to then slap the wrong person's name on the bag tag seems to completely contradict that concern, and perhaps he was seriously trying to bring that concern to light.

Or perhaps not. The potential argument he has that it was a legitimate question seems to be overridden by his own (apparent) acknowledgment that it was all in jest. Interesting, nonetheless.