Originally Posted by aschonland
As you are aware, we have a problem with international entering the US. When an aircraft takes off from say, Paris, the French authorities send a copy of the manifest to the DHS. They then check out the names of the passengers. Quite often they discover a passenger that does not qualify to enter ther US - the flight is then routed to Bangor, ME., and the passenger is removed and deported from Boston the same day. Remember the Cat Stevens story?
It occurred to us that might really be a problem- besides the huge delay stopping the flight which likely adds 2 hours trip time, imagine the hole in security if a "threat" is still able to get on the airplane? We have a short survey on the matter (
http://www.iag-inc.com/int/interview.cfm?id=27) and are pleased to share the preliminary results. Please use this link to take a look.
http://www.iag-inc.com/data/preflight.pdf
That's a pretty loaded survey. The multiple choice questions don't even have options for people who are less concerned with security than the authors.
No, as long as they can catch dangerous terrorists like Cat Stevens, I'm not really concerned about security.
