TSA: Flight Attendants Exempt from screening
Nov 23, 2010 | 12:05 pm
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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.
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.
Nov 23, 2010 | 12:09 pm
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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.
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.
Nov 23, 2010 | 12:09 pm
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Nov 23, 2010 | 12:18 pm
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Your assuming the foot on TSAs throat will let up, not likely.
Nov 23, 2010 | 12:19 pm
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Are you KIDDING? Why are passengers the only ones being targeted here?
Nov 23, 2010 | 12:21 pm
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Nov 23, 2010 | 12:22 pm
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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.
Nov 23, 2010 | 12:24 pm
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Nov 23, 2010 | 12:38 pm
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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.
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.
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?
Are you KIDDING? Why are passengers the only ones being targeted here?
