This is a message for those of you who THINK you are safer.... I just got off CO 50 EWR to FRA last week. CO starts loading thier planes rather early so I nodded off to sleep until we started to taxi to the runway. As I was sitting in an aisle seat(row 34 in case you were wondering) I happened to look up the corridor and my jaw almost dropped to the floor - the flight deck door was open!!! It stayed that way until cruising alt & I had a FA move herself upfront to ask why the flightdeck had not be secured? The answer "oh we forgot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! " So much for security! If there was an Air Marshall onboard why did I a pax have to say something & why did he not do something about it before or at least while heading for the runway!

I wonder how often that happens - hmm ánd you feel safer now??? Why because there is one guy sitting in the front with a weapon in a holster, or because we are getting groped and practically strip searched at a check point or because we are having our unsealed luggage screened & then sent on a trip through a huge processing facility which isn't automated and allows for human contact. If we all sit down and do a bit of honest soul searching - flying today isn't really that much safer than flying prior to 9/11 the only thing we have now is a huge tax bill to foot and a lot more frustration. If we are honest there just is no such thing as absolute security and getting out of bed every morning comes with a risk - it's called life and there are simply no garantees.