Stand back... I've got fingernail clippers, and I'm taking this plane to Cuba!
Being Serious about Airport Security:
A couple weeks ago I was at the airport going through security at about 6:00 AM. I was sleep deprived
and in a rather foul mood when the Transportation Security Agency decided that they had to confiscate my keychain.
You see, my keychain was a rounded piece of metal resembling a bullet with Charlton Heston's signature engraved
on the side. It was a membership gift for joining the National Rifle Association some years ago. The
artifact was silver in color and somewhat cartoonish in shape. It bore little resemblance to a real bullet.
You can imagine my annoyance when the TSA agent refused to allow me to bring it through because it "resembled a
weapon."
Are Some Passengers
Safer Than Others? After its dogged insistence since 9/11 that objects with points or sharp
edges (regardless of size) were a threat to aviation security, the TSA is now considering reversing itself,
and recognizing that the mountain of pen knives and scissors it has confiscated were never really a
hijacking threat.
[No, but it made really good TV news footage.]
Excellent:
Flying Blind Against
Islamic Terrorism. A 9-year-old boy carrying a "Going to Grandma's" bag,
with a stuffed animal "Beanie Baby" hanging out of it, is pulled aside, told to take
his shoes off, and searched. An 82-year-old man who can barely walk because of
arthritis is told to stand and raise his hands and is patted down. Females
undergo "enhanced" or "more intrusive" screening as their breasts, genitals, and buttocks are
subjected to "pat-down searches," even as hundreds of thousands of airport workers with access
to planes undergo no screening whatsoever.
Don't
burden us all for fear of terrorism. I lost count of the number of hours of my life
wasted away in queues to weedle out illicit nail-clippers, cigarette lighters and baby milk from the
luggage of obviously law-abiding passengers. And then, two weeks ago, I arrived in New Zealand
and almost immediately boarded an internal flight from Auckland to Nelson. What a joy.
It was no more complicated than getting on a bus.
At last!
Green
Light For Profiling. Nearly seven years after the 9-11 attacks, the Bush administration is
finally reconsidering its opposition to one of the most effective counterterrorism weapons at its disposal.
In the months ahead, FBI agents may be able to profile potential terrorists on the basis of suspicious traits and
activities, including their ethnic and religious backgrounds. Those most likely to commit acts of
Islamic terrorism will no longer be able to hide in plain sight.
Muslims
may not have to undergo sniffer dog checks in UK. Muslim passengers may not be touched by sniffer
dogs of the British Transport Police after complaints that the practice is against Islam. According to
the religion, dogs are deemed to be spiritually "unclean".
Update:
Sniffer dogs to wear 'Muslim' bootees.
Police sniffer dogs will have to wear bootees when searching the homes of Muslims so as not to cause offence. Guidelines
being drawn up by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) urge awareness of religious sensitivities when using dogs
to search for drugs and explosives. The guidelines, to be published this year, were designed to cover mosques but have
been extended to include other buildings.
You may also want to read about
The Religion of the Easily Offended.
Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern
Liberals "Think". At the airports, in order not to discriminate, we have to intentionally make
ourselves stupid. We have to pretend we don't know things we do know, and we have to pretend that the
next person who is likely to blow up an airplane is as much the 87-year-old Swedish great-great-grandmother as
those four 27-year-old imams newly arrived from Syria screaming "Allahu Akbar!" just before they board the
plane. In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly
indiscriminate.
Air marshals' names tagged on 'no-fly' list.
Some federal air marshals have been denied entry to flights they are assigned to protect when their names matched
those on the terrorist no-fly list, and the agency says it's now taking steps to make sure their agents are
allowed to board in the future.
The
Airport Security Follies: Six years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, airport security
remains a theater of the absurd. The changes put in place following the September 11th catastrophe
have been drastic, and largely of two kinds: those practical and effective, and those irrational,
wasteful and pointless. ... We are content wasting billions of taxpayer dollars and untold hours of labor in
a delusional attempt to thwart an attack that has already happened, asked to queue for absurd lengths of
time, subject to embarrassing pat-downs and loss of our belongings.
Airline Captains Do What, Again?
About two years after 9/11 I was selected at random by a TSA agent for additional security screening at an
airport checkpoint. I was asked to remove my hat, shoes, belt, and jacket, after which I was told to
spread my arms and legs for electronic "wanding". When I asked why I had been chosen for the extra
attention, two more agents quickly appeared, and their unsmiling faces emphasized that airport security was,
indeed, very serious business. "We need to be sure you don't have anything you can use to take control
of an aircraft", the screener told me. I will never forget the absurdity of his words. You see, I
was, in fact, about to take control of an aircraft, an Airbus A320 to be precise, and fly it up the Potomac
River to LaGuardia. That's what airline Captains like me get paid to do.
Methanol Fuel Cells Cleared For
U.S. Planes. Methanol fuel cells are now allowed on airplanes. This paragraph sums up the
inconsistency nicely: "So now, innocuous gels/liquids/shampoos are deemed too hazardous to bring inside
the airplane cabin, but a known volatile liquid (however safe it may be) is required to be stored inside your
carryon baggage? I'm not criticizing the technology here, but I have a feeling that that this DOT logic
is going to be questioned repeatedly by frazzled flyers."
Airport admits installing foot-washing benches.
Kansas City International Airport officials have acknowledged installing foot-washing benches in a restroom at
the airport, but deny they're intended for Muslim cab drivers.
[Who else would use them?]
Sinks for Muslims
at airport are up in air. Special floor-level sinks that would make it easier for Muslims to
wash their feet before prayer are part of the current plans for restrooms that would serve taxi drivers in a
new airport terminal due for completion next year. But airport officials, who last week said the sinks
were needed to solve a potential safety hazard from wet floors and to make the restrooms more sanitary,
said Friday [9/21/2007] that plans for the foot sinks were "only preliminary."
How
Muslim footbaths threaten America's social fabric: There's an uproar in the U.K. over recent
comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury that, given the country's growing and restive Muslim population, it
is "unavoidable" that certain aspects of Islamic law would, at some point, have to be accepted in Britain.
What many Americans do not realize is that there's a concerted effort by some in the American Muslim community
to move slowly in a similar direction right here in the United States.
Muslim sensitivity training for 45,000 airport
workers. The Transportation Security Administration — created after 9/11 to safeguard America's
airports — is providing Islamic sensitivity training to 45,000 airport security officers so they'll know what
to expect when Muslims fly from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia to participate in the annual "hajj," or pilgrimage
to Mecca.
[If Mecca is so great, why buy a round-trip ticket?]
Profile in
sanity. Osama and his pals must take great joy at watching 80-year-old grandmothers being
patted down and their creams confiscated by jumpy security people. … Of course, the sane way to
protect Americans in the sky is to stop looking for nail files and begin profiling people who might
actually cause terror damage. That is not "racial" profiling, that is "terror" profiling. Most
of the recent terror activities have been perpetuated by young Muslim men. So it is these people who
need greater scrutiny when they check in for a flight.
Airport
Idiocy: Five years after 9/11, our air-security system still misses the main point. We screen
for things, but largely ignore the obvious: Terrorists are people — so we need to be examining
people, not just what they carry on board.
Airport
Insecurity: The only downside to the trip was my having to deal with airport security. In
Burbank, I was pulled out of line, not because, God forbid, I was trying to sneak a bottle of water or a jar of
hair gel aboard, but because my can of deodorant and my tube of Crest were deemed too large. The two items
were promptly confiscated. Fitting the terrorist profile as I do — being a bald 67-year-old
American male — it made perfect sense that they'd want to separate me from those potentially lethal
toiletries.
Flying the Politically-Correct Skies:
Political correctness has harmed our nation's aviation security, as common-sense measures have been
attacked by the left. For example, the American Civil Liberties Union was very critical of the Computer
Assisted Passenger Profiling System (CAPPS II), because it was "secretive, lacking due process protections
for people who are unfairly tagged." Any attempt to screen Arab-Americans and foreign nationals has led to
charges of profiling and racism. The left seems to have no problem with grandmothers and babies being
searched, but insists we leave young Arabic men alone.
Hand
over your toothpaste. I was standing in the security line at the airport in Atlanta. I
removed my shoes and my belt, emptied the change from my pockets, discarded my water bottle and placed my tote
bag on the belt that would carry it through the X-ray machine. Suddenly, I was pulled aside. "Sir,
do you know that you are not allowed to carry on board more than a 3.2 ounce tube of toothpaste?"
Asked to explain my blatant breach of security, I sheepishly responded that I had brushed my teeth a number
of times with the toothpaste, and surely there must now be less than 3.2 ounces. At that very
moment, the assistant head of security for the airport walked by and inquired what the problem was.
Our Carry-On Luggage Is Not the Real
Problem. If termites are weakening a home's foundation, what do we do? We call the
exterminator and eliminate the problem. If armed robbers are at our doors trying to break their
way in, what do we do? We defend ourselves to the best of our abilities until the authorities arrive
to eliminate the threat. If Islamic totalitarians come close to murdering hundreds of people by mixing
common household materials to blow up airplanes, what do we do? Apparently, we stop carrying
liquids and gels in our carry-on luggage.
Screening
for terrorists as nicely as possible. One of the frustrating reasons the U.S. government feels
compelled to spend all of this time and energy coming up with computerized lie detectors is that civil
libertarians can't trust airport security personnel to do the same thing. Why? Because it's
possible for humans to be racist. The TSA's more established security system, Screening Passengers by
Observation Technique, or SPOT, relies on human intelligence instead of the artificial kind. … This
apparently is unacceptable for civil libertarians.
Man
threatened with arrest at Heathrow for wearing Transformers T-shirt. An airline passenger
claimed that a security guard threatened to arrest him because he was wearing a T-shirt showing a cartoon
robot with a gun. Brad Jayakody, 30, from London, said he was stopped from passing through security at
Heathrow's Terminal 5 after his Transformers T-shirt was deemed 'offensive.'
Veils to be lifted at British
airports. Immigration officers at British airports will begin lifting the veils of passengers to
verify identity, The Scotsman said Sunday [12/24/2006]. The order came after it was revealed that
suspected killer Mustaf Jama flew from London's Heathrow airport to Somalia using his sister's
passport. He is believed to have worn a woman's niqab, which has just a slit for eyes,
and was not required to lift the veil.
Drawing a veil over common
sense. Mustaf Jama and his younger brother Yusuf, were Somali asylum seekers with a string of
criminal convictions. But it has been reported — according to 'police sources' —
that Mustaf may have managed to escape justice by fleeing back to Somalia using his sister's passport and
dressed as a woman in a niqab, a veil that covers the entire body leaving only the eyes visible.
NJ
Muslim group tracking airport run-ins. A New Jersey Muslim group is launching a nationwide effort
to record complaints about Muslims being wrongfully detained or questioned at airports to determine where the
worst problem areas are. The goal is not to file lawsuits, but to get to the source of problems and
correct it, said Sohail Mohammed, a lawyer for the American Muslim Union.
[Don't forget, Mr. Mohammed, it is the Muslims who are the reason for all this airport inconvenience.
The Muslims are the source of this problem, not the victims of it.
If Cattle Flew: This
is a flying nation. We fly. And everyone knows airport security is an increasingly sad joke, that
TSA itself often appears to have forgotten its mission, if it ever knew it, and taken on a new one -- the
ritual abuse of passengers. Now there's a security problem.
Airport Secrity Nixes Heisman
Trophy. Troy Smith's Heisman Trophy was shipped home because airport security would not
allow the Ohio State quarterback to take it on the plane Tuesday [12/12/2006].
Pumpkin Pie: New
Threat in Sky. Apparently pumpkin pies are too dangerous to allow to fly. The Cleveland
Plain Dealer reports: "Overall, operations at Hopkins [Airport in Cleveland] were smooth, [TSA
functionary Rick] DeChant said, but there was at least one unexpected hiccup this week. 'In the last
two days, we have taken a dozen baked pies,' he said. Pie filling apparently is banned from carry-on
luggage, too. But the pies didn't go to waste. They were taken to the airport's United Service
Organizations lounge, where soldiers passing through can relax and eat."
The Editor says...
This is an obvious shakedown. If the pies are dangerous, why are they feeding
them to the soldiers? Here's another obvious scam:
Even the Guards Are
Confused. My brother ... had to go through security and wanted to take a bottle of (unopened)
water. He was prevented by the guard and was told he could buy bottled water inside. He asked
why those bottles were safe, to be told that those inside had been 'screened'. He offered to hand his
bottle over to be Xrayed, to then be told that they could not detect explosives with xrays. He then asked
how they screened the bottles of water inside, to be told that every item goes through the xray machine.
Jewish man removed
from airplane for praying. Some fellow passengers are questioning why an Orthodox Jewish man was
removed from an Air Canada Jazz flight in Montreal last week for praying. The man was a passenger on a
Sept. 1 flight from Montreal to New York City when the incident happened. The airplane was heading
toward the runway at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport when eyewitnesses said the Orthodox
man began to pray.
Qantas Boss Cool
After Being Detained on Suspicion of Being a Terrorist at LAX. Qantas chairwoman Margaret
Jackson has declined an offer by US authorities to lodge a complaint after she was detained on suspicion
of being a terrorist at Los Angeles airport last year.
Airport
security shook down the wrong guy. So I'm on my way to Vegas and I'm at the Calgary
airport going through the ritual, post-9/11 nonsense that makes everybody feel better about air
travel, when the people in charge of keeping us safe decide that the best way to fight international
terrorism is to roust a 90-year-old man. I am not kidding. And he's not a
healthy 90-year-old either.
Stupid
airport security: Americans who fit no terrorist profile — mothers
with children, blind and disabled people, elderly couples — are frisked, groped
and hassled. What's even more stupid is that pilots and flight attendants face
similar screening. Here's my question to you: If a pilot is intent on crashing
a plane into a building, does he need to carry anything on board to do it?
Stupid
airport security II: The Transportation Security Administration behaves
as if all passengers and all baggage pose an equal security threat, and that's stupid,
because not nearly all passengers and baggage pose a security threat. They've
seized articles such as tweezers, toy soldiers, hat pins, sewing scissors and other
items they deem as threatening to flight security.
Stupid
airport security III: While my focusing on all possible threats wouldn't
be smart, it would make me a prime candidate to become a TSA official. Their
vision of airport security is to focus on the possible as well as the probable.
Who
(And What) Is Flying On Your Flight? Recent events have once again
highlighted our concern about who and what are flying aboard our commercial
airliners because there is still no reassurance from the government that the issues
raised are under control. To many of us, it appears we continue to be probed and tested for
aviation security vulnerabilities. In short, we still don't seem to have a handle on whom and
what is aboard our commercial airliners despite almost three years of federal control over
aviation security.
Are
Educated Screeners Too Much To Ask? The $6-per-hour airport security screener, arguably the main
reason cited for the federalization of our nation's airport security, is about to rise like the mythical
Phoenix from the ashes of 911. Disguised as federal officers, they will become our first line of defense
against aviation terrorism.
Clipper
Class: A pair of nail scissors and a one-way ticket to airport-security
hell. Running the airline gauntlet can turn into a protracted private struggle, as you
arrive the now-prescribed two hours early to inch through long domestic check-in lines that
seem designed to enhance security mainly by offering incentives for attrition.
Infants Among Those Caught Up
in "No-Fly" Confusion. Infants have been stopped from boarding planes at airports
throughout the United States because their names are the same as, or similar to, those of
possible terrorists on the government's "no-fly list." Because of these screenings,
parents have missed flights while scrambling to have babies' passports and other documents
faxed to allow them to board.
Same story:
Even
Babies Aren't Exempt From "No-Fly" List. Infants have been stopped
from boarding planes at airports throughout the United States because their names
are the same as or similar to those of possible terrorists on the government's "no-fly"
list. It sounds like a joke, but it's not funny to parents who miss flights
while scrambling to have babies' passports and other documents faxed.
Editor's Note:
According to this story,The
Transportation Security Administration, which administers the list,
instructs airlines not to deny boarding to children under 12 -- or select them for extra
security checks -- even if their names match those on a list.
... So why didn't the screeners know this?
Baby is sent through X-ray machine
at LAX. A woman going through security at Los Angeles International Airport put her month-old
grandson into a plastic bin intended for carry-on items and slid it into an X-ray machine. The early
Saturday accident — bizarre but not unprecedented — caught airport workers by surprise,
even though the security line was not busy at the time, officials said.
Woman
Puts Grandson Through Airport X-ray Machine. The Spanish-speaking grandmother apparently did not
speak English, and she and her grandson were later allowed to board a flight for Mexico City.
Child caught in baggage X-ray.
A child between three and five years old managed to slip away from distracted parents and wander onto a baggage
check-in ramp at Oslo's main airport at Gardermoen. It wasn't until the child passed through luggage
X-ray equipment that officials reacted.
Michael Smerconish has written a new book,
"Flying
Blind": How Political Correctness Continues to Compromise Airline Safety
Post 9/11. In a post-9/11 world marked by constant threat of terrorism, why do
the Department of Transportation and the Transportation Security Administration continue
to jeopardize airline security by enforcing outdated screening regulations that cater to
political correctness? The policy in question - disallowing airline security
screeners from using profiling to target young Arab males for secondary screening - goes
against the basic police investigative strategy of using pertinent information to pinpoint
suspects and prevent further terrorist attacks.
ACLU Opposes Safe Air
Travel. Unlike President Bush, the American Civil Liberties Union is not interested in air
security. Like Senator Kerry, they prefer sensitivity to safety. [In November 2004], the
"nonpartisan" ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging Logan International Airport's "behavior pattern recognition
program" on the grounds that it "condones" racial- and ethnic- profiling. The suit alleges that Logan's
safety procedures are unconstitutional, and the litigants are asking for monetary damages.
Counterterrorism in
Airports: It may be less secure to have a computer decide who to wand,
or to have random chance decide whose baggage to open, but it's easier to pretend
that prejudice is not an issue. "It's not the officer's fault; the computer
selected him" plays well as a defense. And in a world where security theatre
still matters more than security, this is an important consideration.
The Terrorist
Profile – Political Correctness Is Deadly. Nationality, race, and
criminal background make up a good terrorist profile. One other characteristic
should be added to the profile and that is religion. Without exception every
terrorist has been Muslim. If you just add males and an age of twenty-something
to the nationality, race, criminal background, and religious characteristic you have
a pretty solid terrorist profile.
U.S.
Plane Wrong On Airport Security. As you travel through our nation's airports
this summer, take note of those who, after walking through the metal detector without
incident, still get pulled for what's called random secondary screening. If your
experience mirrors my own, you'll see plenty of 85-year-old ladies with aluminum
walkers, and young kids get the treatment.
What
Are You Smiling At, Traveler?. The fight against terrorism has wiped the smile
off the face of British passport holders. The UK Passport Service said Friday [8/6/2004]
it would forbid open-mouthed smiles on passport pictures, one of several rules introduced to
comply with strict new U.S. standards.
Grins banned from passport pics.
Travellers have been ordered not to look too happy in their passport photographs to avoid confusing facial
recognition scanners. Toothy, open mouthed grins are being outlawed from the tiny 35mm by
45mm photographs because they will throw off scanners used at airports.
Protect Us From Terrorists, Not
Pilots. Arming pilots is the only real solution, and not just from the standpoint
of cost-efficiency. The pilot is the commander of his craft in the same way a passenger
liner's captain exercises authority over his ship. Each and every day, commercial
passenger and cargo airline pilots demonstrate the sound judgment and sense of responsibility
required to fly expensive, technically complicated airliners. They take their
responsibilities seriously. Pilots, in fact, have to undergo extensive psychological
testing in order to fly commercially, and many have previously served their country
in the military.
Arab hijackers
now eligible for pre-boarding. In June 2001, as Mohamed Atta completed his
final "to do" list before the 9/11 attacks Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta was
conducting a major study on whether airport security was improperly screening passengers
based on ethnicity. As Mineta explained: "We must protect the civil rights of
airline passengers." Protecting airline passengers from sudden death has never made
it onto Mineta's radar screen.
Jiving
us about security: It seems as though the Federal Aviation
Administration's and Department of Transportation's operative assumption
is that there's an equal chance that any person, including pilots and crew
members, who boards a plane is a potential hijacker.
Airport Security: The
Idiots Rule: While boarding a Midwest Express flight to Milwaukee, former Vice President
Al Gore was pulled aside at the boarding gate. He was frisked and his carry-on luggage
searched. How might we reconcile these security measures with any semblance of intelligence? Could
it be that security people think Americans will put up with anything, no matter how stupid, as long as there's
equality in treatment?
Airline Security: One Big
Joke. You never know what we short young women of Asian descent traveling alone with small briefcases
stuffed with newspapers, Dramamine, chocolate chip cookies and store-bought beverages might be plotting.
Flying the Unfriendly
Skies: A friend of mine, who happens to be a police chief, was stopped before boarding a plane,
and relieved of the deadly weapon he was carrying — a pair of apparently lethal tweezers.
Other friends tell similar stories about having been stripped of such dangerous weapons as nail clippers.
Not long ago, Lyn Nofziger raged about being told he couldn't board a plane with the small penknife he's been
carrying around for years — even when going in and out of the White House when he worked there.
Wait Until the Feds Take Over.
As others may also attest, I have never viewed flying as particularly pleasant, and a recent cross-country trip
I took with my family did nothing to change my thinking. For those who have not flown commercial aircraft
since the September 11 attacks, you are in for a rude awakening when you take to the skies again. You
have not faced the insanity that passes for modern airport security.
Search for a knife led to chaos:
Airport security screeners feared that a passenger had managed to walk through their checkpoint with a 12-inch
knife. They never found a knife, but by searching the bags of everyone who had boarded American Airlines
Flight 596 to Boston, they discovered a pilot's pepper spray.
Don't arrest terrorists, INS tells
airport agents: In another example of the federal bureaucracy getting in the way of fighting
terrorism, Immigration and Naturalization Service inspectors at Los Angeles International
Airport — the nation's third-busiest — have been told by their superiors not to arrest
terrorist suspects, even though they carry guns and have arrest authority,
reveals an internal INS memo, a copy of which was obtained by WorldNetDaily.com.
Airport-security
firm at mercy of Muslims: EEOC case forced company to rehire Arabs,
instate Islamic-sensitivity training program.
Bush pays homage to the rituals of
liberalism: Last week, [President] Bush's Department of Transportation required airport security
to search former Vice President Al Gore. There's a lot not to like about Al Gore, but he's not a
terrorist. Gore said he was glad he was searched. Why? So that a potential terrorist could be
spared the trouble? Searching Al Gore is a purely religious act. It is the purposeless, fetishistic
performance of rituals in accordance with the civic religion of liberalism.
Pilot's Job
Threatened For Restricting Extra Lavatory: An American Airlines pilot says his job was threatened
when he restricted access to one of four lavatories on his Boeing 757 jumbo jet for security reasons.
Note:
Federal
Aviation Regulation (FAR) 121.533, section "d" states that the pilot of
the aircraft is, "during flight time, in command of the aircraft and crew and is
responsible for the safety of the passengers, crewmembers, cargo, and airplane."
Ashamed to Be White: All over the
country, American citizens who fit no terrorist profile are being patted down in long airport security lines,
their luggage rifled. Young mothers with children, elderly couples, even flight attendants and pilots are
searched.
INS to deport Arab aliens on
airliners: No handcuffs, no police escorts for 6,000 Middle-Easterners living in the U.S. illegally.
JFK
illegally targeting Muslims, groups say. Muslim, Arab and South Asian passengers are being
profiled by Homeland Security officers at Kennedy Airport, civil liberties groups said Wednesday, citing
a New Jersey family that was detained and interrogated after a flight from Dubai last week.
[It's a little late to ask questions after the flight, isn't it?]
Plane
flies five passengers from US to London. A major airline is under fire from environmentalists for
flying an aircraft across the Atlantic with only five passengers on board. The flight from Chicago to
London meant that the plane, a Boeing 777, used 22,000 gallons of fuel.
British Airways flies empty jets
15,000 miles. British Airways has been criticised for operating at least three long-haul "ghost flights" totalling
15,000 miles with no passengers on board in little over a week. It flew empty 747-400s — the biggest
planes in its fleet — to Hong Kong and Mumbai despite having nobody but the aircrafts' crews on board.
Why haven't they done this before?
Airlines May
Start Treating Passengers `Like Freight'. Imagine two scales at the airline ticket counter, one
for your bags and one for you. The price of a ticket depends upon the weight of both. That may not
be so far-fetched.
The Editor says...
This is one of the few new ideas at the airport that actually makes sense, because airplanes use fuel
in a much more direct proportion to their payload than trains or buses or cars.
'Attendants too fat to fly'.
An Indian court has upheld the right of state-owned Air India to ground overweight flight attendants, a report
said on Thursday [6/5/2008]. Lawyers for the airline told the court the attendants were moved from flight
duty to ground duty when they failed to meet minimum physical fitness standards, the Hindu newspaper reported.
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