Originally Posted by
FliesWay2Much
From what I saw this morning, it looks like the bad guys blew up a check-in counter area? It's been almost ten years since I was last at BRU, so I couldn't tell for sure.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/europe...ons/index.html
Here at home, how will the TSA retaliate?
This may provide some insight on how TSA responds to the bomb package(s) manually triggered to go of landside and to land-side suicidal bombers at that too:
Originally Posted by GUWonder
Originally Posted by
billybligh
Too soon to suspect that it was a device meant to make it on a plane? Sad.
Tragic indeed.
Terrorists targeting the land-side area (and particularly check-in areas, more so for some airlines than for other airlines) at airports in various parts of Europe has been a concern for quite some time, including particularly for AA. But the focus in that regard at European airports was more on gunmen concerns than on bombs -- which is why there has been more of a governmental show of force with guns land-side than with bomb interdiction means at European airport entrances or check-in counters. [It seems like the explosions land-side were not meant to be explosions on planes. The Brussels metro was also subjected to an explosion.]. When flying AA/US out of Italy, access to check-in line for AA/US (and even BA) was sometimes partially limited to only those who were reviewed by some Italian police types before being allowed to proceed to the check-in counters. There may be more of this coming up.
Those checking in at airports in the EU/Schengen area when flying AA today or this week should check for airline and airport updates on what they should expect today or at least perhaps later this week.
Here's what may come up:
Probably a push for more segregated landslide areas at foreign airports where US airlines' flights' passengers get compacted into a single area to "secure" with more guns for a show of force, of the Italian style mentioned above that included big gun displays.
Perhaps some kind of limited push for creating bottlenecks to enter airport terminal buildings with some more expensive machines supposedly meant to try to interdict IED concerns of the sort that has again gotten focus after today's tragedy. More dogs too.
Making check-in procedures at EU/Schengen airports even worse than they already are.
Double down on hassling passengers at screening checkpoints and more gate-area searches and more haraSSSSment.
The TSA only orders from a menu we've already seen and they do so no matter how bad the menu, no no matter how bad the cooks, no matter how bad the food inputs and outputs have been.
I wouldn't be surprised if some parts of the USG were told to up their protection game yesterday after the Belgian-French security operation over the weekend and on Monday increased the pressure on those involved in the Paris attacks last year and those in the support network for the last known fugitive who escaped and hid for months after those attacks despite being a known face around Europe at least.
Didn't some expect the following: sort of how rats trapped into a corner can sometimes more immediately become a greater danger than before they felt trapped in a corner? Sure, but the world doesn't change on a dime, and being conditioned to respond to everything isn't necessarily always all that effective (as we repeatedly see with the TSA).
It would be interesting to know if the BRU raids (before this airport incident) were on the TSA "intelligence" briefings -- aka news readings -- that some TSA screeners at airports get when huddled together in the airport hallways.