Posted on 12/27/2009 7:15:46 AM PST by reaganaut1
In the wake of the terrorism attempt Friday on a Northwest Airlines flight, federal officials on Saturday imposed new restrictions on travelers that could lengthen lines at airports and limit the ability of international passengers to move about an airplane.
The government was vague about the steps it was taking, saying that it wanted the security experience to be “unpredictable” and that passengers would not find the same measures at every airport — a prospect that may upset airlines and travelers alike.
But several airlines released detailed information about the restrictions, saying that passengers on international flights coming to the United States will apparently have to remain in their seats for the last hour of a flight without any personal items on their laps. It was not clear how often the rule would affect domestic flights.
Overseas passengers will be restricted to only one carry-on item, and domestic passengers will probably face longer security lines. That was already the case in some airports Saturday, in the United States and overseas.
The restrictions will again change the routine of air travel, which has undergone an upheaval since the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington in September 2001 and three later attempts at air terrorism.
Soon after the attempt on Friday, travelers at airports around the world began experiencing heightened screening in security lines. On one flight, from Newark Liberty International Airport to Little Rock, Ark., flight attendants kept cabin lights on for the entire trip instead of dimming them for takeoff and landing.
The limits, which brought to mind some of the most stringent policies after the 2001 attacks, come at a difficult time for the airline industry.
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I usually knew when the flight out was due and checked to see if there was space A. I’d usually read a book. What do you do on standby?
Wear a Koran around your neck?
Okay, I’ll bite. Why is it stupid and/or inaccurate?
“What do you do on standby?”
I meant with your luggage. We carry ours on.
I sure do wish they’d catch somebody trying to blow up an airplane with a bra bomb, because then TSA would implement new security rules so that after making everyone take off their shoes at the screening station, the TSA would make all of the women take off ......
**union news updates in emails**
Get those from my unions too..
I am involved in a chat on another site about UNION STUPIDITY. Chatting about Residual Checks for 2 cents, 4 cents, 17 cents... OY, VEY!!!
“I am involved in a chat on another site about UNION STUPIDITY.”
Googled a few...interesting.
Dead easy. . .especially going through the x-ray machine. . .shoes off. . .I had foot powder on and left footprints and they didn’t even comment or stop me. . .could have been anthrax for all they knew. As it was, I was leaving foot fungus in the portal.
TSA is garbage.
This is getting ridiculous. At this point, I'd rather check all luggage and chance not having a change of clothes and other personal items on the other end.
Each act of terrorism results in the willing abandonment of individual liberty by American people. I'd be willing to project that each act of terrorism which takes place on our shores or airspace results in ten thousand gubmint jobs and $100,000,000 in new spending.
Now if the people on board that airliner were allowed to slowly beat the guy to death and dump him on the tarmac in front of video cameras, that would do much more to secure our safety than anything else the gubmint could do.
Not.
Business traveler here. . . no checked bag, small carry-on (that is why gawd made hotel laundry). Land and get the heck out of the airport instead of standing around in some cattle pen waiting for luggage that MAY show up.
No checked bags, no lost luggage, no surly line of angry passengers and even more surly and angry lost luggage personnel.
It is the tourist passenger that abuses carry on as they trundle aboard over-packed, over-loaded and looking every bit the bag-lady they are.
I HAD a trip to CA in a few weeks.
Cancelled due to the silliness of these “new” rules, and this nonsense about screening practices to be unpredictable, right, like I believe that. . .they just can’t get it right and they will now be out of control profiling old ladies, the Amish but never a muslime.
“and not even being permitted to go the restroom.”
That could get real ugly (and smelly) real fast.
American breasts have no personality or swagger these days. They are like clone-pods spawned by the queen @ Victoria's Secret.
Off Topic Penalty noted.
“The first time someone has a major bathroom “accident” by the new rules look for a major lawsuit.”
...or a critical UTI as a result of not being able to use “the facilities”.
yea, but a bullet through a window will decompress the cabin in a hurry. It’d be pretty funny watching you get sucked out through a 12 inch hole. Fire away moron.
;)
Just pressure wash the interior down once a week.
Woo! You get the vivid prose prize for the day! Must be an important topic to you...LOL!
We all need a lighter side cause. That’s mine!
WRONG, ZOMBIE!!!
those windows are not glass they do not shatter...nice round hole in both... same as previous POST...
I’d Rather take my chances that way ...than WHINING about some Ragheaded MUZZIE.
FIRE!!! ..and Get the EFF OUT of my way!
>>As it was, I was leaving foot fungus in the portal.<<
There are Douglas Adams-style opportunities there....
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