Originally Posted by michaelchertoff
And he has no economic skin the game, right? So we should just accept his opinion and enact it.
Of course you do. I call him a man willing to put every single passenger and employee of his company at risk in order to open up two sellable seats on every flight with FAMs.
A successful terrorist attack on his airline (or even on another US flag carrier) would likely cost Continental more money than the loss of a couple of seats here and there. Thus, in his estimate, the risk of a successful attack must be quite low.
Statistically, the risk of a terrorist attack in the US is extremely low. But, since you think it's such a large risk, you might not want to fly Continental, or any other airline for that matter.
This notion that hardened cockpit doors have rendered airliners safe from takeover is absolutely false.
The notion that hardened cockpit doors has not provided any improvement is false. Nobody has said that a hijacking is now impossible, just much less probably than it was before.