<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by sowalsky:
How about UA and other airlines stop sucking up the federal government and get their heads back on, allowing customers to carry scissors on planes? The only security system needed onboard is reinforced cockpit doors. Add that with air marshals, and stewardesses blockading cockpit doors with beverage carts during cockpit meal service, and no one even has a chance to use their leatherman.</font>
Why should anyone need scissors in their carry-on baggage? More psgrs become unglued inflight without their cigarettes than they ever do without their scissors- and a return to domestic smoking sections onboard will NEVER happen.
With all due respect for your opinion, airlines aren't "sucking up" to the Feds. We're complying with federal law. Big difference. It was Congress, not the airline industry, that passed sweeping legislation affecting our business and our customers. This was at a substancial cost, literally and, in customer service terms, more figuratively, for the airline industry.
If you honestly believe that a "stewardess" blockading a cockpit door is enough of a deterrent for a terrorist to choose not to use their scissors against a crew member to gain access to the flight deck, perhaps a review of how terrorists gained access to the locked flight deck aboard UA 93 on 9/11/01 would help you gain a better perspective.