TSA: Flight Attendants Exempt from screening
 

Flights attendants are joining pilots in getting to skip the new enhanced security procedures at airports.

The Transportation Security Administration confirmed the change on Tuesday after The Associated Press asked about it.

On Friday the TSA said pilots could skip the more intense screening, including full-body scanners. Flight attendants argued they, too, should be exempt.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/1...-can-also.html

Sensible adjustment or divide-and-conquer? Discuss among yourselves.

All flight crew have been exempt for over a week now. Airport employees, too.

It just seems to be hitting the news now, however.

Classic devide & conquer. Once the general public is broken, they'll be back to screening air crews.

The groups most oganised & able to be the center of resitance (pilots & flight Attendants) are now exempt.

:mad::mad::mad:

And FAs (along with GAs) are most likely the largest group of skirt wearers in airports in the US. Sadly we will have lost a voice in that battle.

Your assuming the foot on TSAs throat will let up, not likely.

What, WHAT?!?! Pilots and flight attendants have background checks, education and actual training in air safety and security. The ding-dong at the Cinnabon inside the airport certainly does not. TSA is willing to let them pass through with who knows what potentially dangerous devices while irradiating me and/or touching my genitals?

Are you KIDDING? Why are passengers the only ones being targeted here?

We don't have a union that spends large amounts of PAC dollars.

Well, the airline employees' unions now have a choice. They can exit this whole debate because they got theirs, leaving passengers to their ugly fate... which is exactly what TSA wants. (Divide and conquer is right.) Or they can connect the dots between patdown outrage, cancelled travel, and their own job security, and advocate for all of us.

By the same token, I hope that if and when TSA tries to buy off FT-class frequent flyers with some kind of trusted-traveler biometric solution that keeps the blueshirts' fingers out of our shorts, we have the good political sense to reject that divide-and-conquer tactic and say: hell no.

Excellent, so the McDonald's burger-flipper who will probably will work there less than a year gets less screening than someone who flies for a living. :rolleyes:

as my FA friend told me "we're not the problem, YOU are"

Easy - passenger=terrorist, airport/airline employee/TSA=never a terrorist.

When the layoffs start, they'll be wishing they hadn't left us behind.

The TSA still plans a nationwide rollout for CrewPass, a program that clears pilots through security faster. It's currently being tested in Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Columbia, S.C.

Is the TSA now going to pay for CrewPASS? The airlines were the ones that were going to have to foot the bill for that. As for the tests being done in BWI, PIT and CAE, that's been going on for years.



I think SATTSO is cryptically referring to ground-based airline employees.

;)