FriendlySkies

I carry a bottle of purell in my laptop bag. I use it immediately after I go through the checkpoint.. No telling what is crawling on the TSOs gloves.. So far, my bottle, which is over 3.4 ounces and not in a freedom baggie, has not been detected...

Great job TSA!^

reamworks

BTW: Here's something to try at home. Put a dab of Purell on a plate and light it! See how nicely it burns. And not only is it allowed through security, but you can easily procure gallons of it within the sterile area.

studentff

(emphasis mine)

That's a ray of hope if I've ever seen one. In the past, you could always count on flight crews to act like nervous nellies and say "anything for security," at least to the press. (If you knew them personally or talked to them in private, though, you'd often get a different story.)

I truly believe that if the airline unions or management were to rise up against TSA, we would see all of the abuses and silly rules come to a grinding halt. If TSA starts messing up boarding and operations (delaying passengers and flights for gate screening) or gets so intrusive as to drive down passenger traffic (perhaps the inevitable nudiscope incident of images posted online or a well publicized strip search incident), the airlines can bring a lot of pressure to bear. IMO it was the airlines that forced TSA to go to 3.4-1-1 instead of a total liquid ban, and the airlines have also been good at exempting their own employees from absurd requirements (shoe carnival, war on water).

Do you remember the key points of the FA's case against?

Boggie Dog

Implied threat of "DY...T".

FliesWay2Much

As usual, a fluff piece. The UA FA was interviewed on-camera. Her sound byte was along the lines of slippery slope. There was nothing at all about all of the false positives and the resulting harassment. (I'd expect nothing less from the minstream media.)

GUWonder

.... protection of a sort against a public backlash directed at politicians and bureaucrats in the aftermath of an incident involving explosives.

Global_Hi_Flyer

Agree, it was puff piece. What I missed before was the statement that they'll also be doing this at the ID check station - think how much this is going to add to the delays.

(noted that you have imbedded the link in your post).

N965VJ

Imagine that, a FA from UA countering the “anything to make us safer” sheeple.

MrClean

... had a lady checking my bag at LHR change here gloves before opening a case with my mouthpiece in it, without me asking her. Not sure if she was worried about me or herself (or both) but I was appreciative. She told me she used to get lots of eye infections before she started changing her gloves frequently. I never really thought about it before then.

FliesFromCanada

Now the pyro in me wants to try that at home!

I posted on Bob's blog:

"There are at least a dozen important, valid questions so far on this thread and the only thing you respond to, Bob, is a ridiculous Twitter rumour about DNA that no one here has even mentioned.

Way to go after the low hanging fruit."

We'll see if it gets approved.

goalie

because any (n.b. any) combination of any (n.b. any) items can trigger a false positive. the same applies to shoes and what i may or may not have stepped in. see here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...chine-lax.html

and based on advice from other tso's, i can if i so choose, request a fresh swab for both of my hands and additional fresh swabs for both of my shoes.

sorry to sound harsh but i am not a sheep and as long as i am within my rights, i will not simply bend over and take it

Scubatooth

That was her own fault for the eye infections and the exact reasons why gloves should be changed for every person. Im very careful and have yet to get anything from any of my patients (including the nasty bugs like MRSA, VRE, MRDO, Acinetobacter)

At work once the gloves are on I wont even scratch an itch. Then depending on the scene I might be changing my gloves a few times on the same patient. Then if im dealing with multiple patients I change them between patients.

Global_Hi_Flyer

My bet is that he's waiting for some positive comments before he clears any of the comments made.

FriendlySkies

+1

Pat89339

I get my palms, the back of my hands (sometimes), shoes, cane handle (sometimes), and brace swabbed every time through security. Guess I'll be part of the multiple swab club now with my fellow orthopedic shoe terrorist. And yes, I always ask for a fresh trap.