Originally Posted by
Superguy
I'm not questioning the tactics per se as I know Deltas know what they're doing. I guess I'm just skeptical of any organization that puts out their own studies/benchmarks/etc and claims they're the absolute truth. It's fine that they run tests and make a claim. I just like to see some outside verification of those claims.
I can appreciate that.
I don't doubt that. The question comes where is that decision made. The captain blames the airline, the airline blames the TSA, TSA blames the airline ...
But this was a policy long before 9/11 and the existence of the TSA.
I can generally understand flights going out of DCA as that's just across the river from downtown DC. I haven't seen the same thing in fights out of BWI and IAD considering they're not that far off either. Especially with all the heavies going out of IAD.
From what I've heard its pretty heavy at both, although maybe not as much as DCA.
lol I hear ya. I play an online RPG (Final Fantasy XI) that really doesn't have much player vs. player, so I don't have to worry about getting beat by the young whipper snappers. They're on my team.
Neverwinter Nights II and Spellforce are my RPGs of choice. And Halo on XBox.
I think you'll find people here be largely against the FAM program, but for screening. A lot of it's just the implementation that sucks.
That's my impression as well.
What I don't like seeing is where TSA focuses on canning the whistle blower (such as Mark "Baghdad Bob" Hatfield wanting to can the person who released the 90% failure rate at EWR) rather than actually fixing the problems.
On this we're in 100% agreement.