Originally Posted by
richarddd
It's clear the the enhanced questions are useless for any legitimate security purpose.
However, I'm curious what those of you who resist the questions think you're accomplishing? You're not going to change AA's procedures.
If enough people en masse started replying "I will not answer that stupid/irrelevant/intrusive/privacy-invading question", then I suspect the procedures would eventually change.
You're not going to get to your flight any quicker.
Who knows? You just might. In the early days of pornoscanners one occasionally got through TSA more quickly by opting out. Sometimes if you made it clear ahead of time that you weren't going to go through the pornoscanner, they immediately escorted you to your government grope, thus skipping the line.
I could see this happening with the new security questions:
"Look, I'm not going to play your little 20 questions game so you can stop wasting both of our time and just send me to secondary right now."
I can see complaining to AA, although that doesn't seem to accomplish anything. What does complaining, etc. to some front line employee or contractor accomplish?
See above. If enough people grow spines and refuse to put up with this, something will have to change.
Originally Posted by
aldaniti
Where do you work in the US?
You don't? What do you do?
So what do you do in the day?
How much is your gym membership?
What's a HOA fee?.....
Intrusive personal questions that invade my privacy and have zero to do with aviation security. There is no way I would respond to any of those with anything other than something along the lines of "None of your business"/"You have no need for that information"
Originally Posted by
jdw0624
Just like the questions "Did you pack your own bags?" and "Did anyone unknown to you give you anything to take onboard?" What did they accomplish? Absolutely nothing!
I disagree on that. At least those questions, if answered honestly and thoughtfully, pertain to/contribute to aviation security. Luggage being out of one's possession is a real security risk. Someone with nefarious intent sneaking something bad into the luggage of someone else has been a vector for terrorism/attempted terrorism.
My HOA dues and gym membership status, on the other hand, have never attempted to bring down an aircraft.