How about a middle eastern man flying the plane? As the pilot? How would that go over in this day and age? :D ^

Disagree. It would be the smoothest grease-job ever. Don't want to rattle the bladder :D .

Just a follow-up...

They sent an email to TSA complaing about this, and they got this reply back:

Typical.

Wait, the TSA isn't responsible for the safety of air transportation and the security of the cockpit? :rolleyes:

Argh! This agency doesn't know its a$$ from its eyeballs.

Nailed it ! Now this is going to discombobulate a few here, but the cabin crew (particularly the no. 1) are (gasp) profiling the pax. And the more senior ones as usual on long-haul are pretty good at it. A few brown faces in First and there would have been a cart blocking the door I'm sure.

On CO, they never block the door with a beverage cart. The FC FA takes up her defensive position at the front of the F cabin and anyone getting up is politely asked to sit down as the pilots gotta go, and they will be allowed to move abotu he cabin again once they are done. No big deal, no worries, and when I am in F and I see the FA in this position I always turn around and look for anyone attempting to storm the door while this is going on. Many other male pax do as well.

Perhaps the message has gotten across: Try this again here in America and you'd better PRAY that the FAMs get to you before the pax do.

--PP

I just got a visual of a pilot with his legs crossed, eyeballs yellow, back teeth floating, just as the plane touches down thecockpit door opens up and Leslie Nielsen pokes his head in and says "Just wanted to tell you both good luck, we're all counting on you."

--PP

Not unless you are caught with water or wearing shoes that weren't run through an X-ray that cannot detect explosives. THEN they're all over your butt with a microscope and a pair of tweezers.

--PP

On the note of the pilots coming out of the cockpit, saw a first for me on a UX short-haul yesterday. It was UX 7929 (Trans States) IAD-MSY. Total flight time was less than 2h 20min, but those pilots must've really had to go. About an hour into flight, cockpit door opens, out comes the 1O, to the lav in the back of the E145. 1O returns to cockpit, FA comes out, and then two minutes later, the Captain comes out to head to the lav. He comes back, hangs out in the galley for a minute or so, then calls into the cockpit. Door opens and Capt, FO, and FA proceed to exchange a couple jokes before the flight deck door is closed again. As other posters have pointed out, I'm not too worried about a hijacking - especially on an RJ, but I found it amusing and figured I'd share.

More vigilantes, making the world a safer place. :rolleyes:

Reminds me of the architect who had an iPod and went to the toilet, upon return was manhandled by a fellow passenger. I see more of that happening when folks pretend to become LEOs.