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Delta: Flight Attendants Should be Allowed to Skip Scanners
- Posted on November 22, 2010 at 3:50pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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ATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines Inc. says flight attendants should be allowed to bypass tougher security screenings, just as pilots can.
The Transportation Security Administration has said it will let pilots skip the body scans and aggressive pat-downs that travelers get. Now, Delta CEO Richard Anderson has asked the TSA to let flight attendants get the same treatment. His request was included in a letter to employees over the weekend.
The CEO’s letter says flight attendants are safety professionals just like pilots and should be included in the same security screening that pilots get.
There was no immediate word from the TSA on Delta’s request.
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charles1540
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:21pmAll flight crew personnel should be cleared with proper identification. Like everything else relating to security at airports we seems to have the focus on all the wrong priorities. Another example of just how inefficient the government run programs function. I suppose this is why we now see Obama’s union buddies AFL-CIO moving in to unionize the TSA. I thought it was against the law to unionize this group.
Hey you newly elected congressman and Senators. Aren’t you people suppose to watch this crap!!!
Report Post »joehanx2
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:37pmum……. fort hood
Report Post »temple62
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:28pmYou have to hand it to Obama, what intellect! He did not pick Chertoff as Homeland Security Chief who was not very successful in promoting TSA scanners during the Bush era. However, Obama picked Napolitano, the idiot governor from Arizona whose successes included driving Arizona into bankruptcy. Now they are all one big happy family since Chertoff and Soros are instrumental in selling the current TSA scanners. Strange bed fellows, indeed!
Report Post »FreedomIQ
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 4:07pmToo little too late you cowardly traitors. Delta should have fought the TSA from day one. Now they’re just lobbying for favors.
Report Post »nathanhale
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:53amWhat we are doing with airport security is basically a “process of elimination” for would-be terrorists.
Think of it like this: If we exclude pilots, flight attendants, and small children from the screening process, then we have just given a would-be terrorist three different “sure-fire” ways to bring down another plane. Get it?
We really need to stop this PC crap and start profiling behavior. The trouble is that no one out there WANTS to think like a terrorist. I get it. It’s a disgusting concept. But counter-terrorism works. (and no. not like jack bauer.) I mean ask yourself, “What would I do in this if I were a terrorist?”
If everyone except for pilots, flight attendants, and small children are subject to the cavity search, then I will find a way to make this an inside job. Or, maybe, just to scare the bejeezus out of the Americans, I‘ll put a bomb in my baby’s diaper. Pretty awful, huh? Well, that‘s what they’re thinking about.
Our problem is that we’re focusing on ways to close the openings we know about. We’re not actually looking for new openings. Mark my words: If this goes through, then the next terrorist attack (or attempt) will either be an inside job, or (God forbid) an exploding baby.
Report Post »Randyrocker
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 11:52pmWhy not, they have to strip down more than anyone else ever does, so please TSA give them a break.
Report Post »They are the reason the skies are friendly.
MUDFLAPS
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 11:10pmPhiladelphia is taking Glenn and Hannity off the air
Report Post »CVG girl
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 9:29pmI have been a flight attendant for over 25 years. We are heavily scutinized, have had FBI checks, and I have been fingerprinted several times. When I travel in uniform, I am allowed to carry as many gels and liquids as I like. I also have access to the flight deck. In my opinion, these scanners and pat downs do nothing to increase safety, it is more about showboating.Our security procedures (the old ones), are fine for detecting crazies and loons, but a determined terrorist is always a step ahead, whle we react to yesterday’s threats. Same now. Next the terrorists will invent a tampon bomb. How will TSA react to that? If you knew what I knew about airport security, you would know it is completely pointless to screen f/a’s, and that there are other things that I cannot discuss publicly we should be focusing on. I will not submit to the scans, I will do the patdown if I must, and we must do security with common sense.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 8:18pmEVERYONE should be exempt! Metal detectors and bomb sniffing dogs work even better. This is all about control, UNIONS and money… AGAIN!
Report Post »oljw00
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:28pmDerrrrrrrr…………… (applies here)
Because obviously it’s the day-to-day folks who work in this capacity that represent a real threat. Well. them and the pilots of course…
This is the clear result of the cancer that is “political correctness” on parade for everyone to see (and feel).
Report Post »Patrick in AZ
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:06pmAdd your comments
Report Post »Patrick in AZ
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:05pmIs it just a coincidence that these new security procedures were implemented right around the same time America voted against this administration?
Report Post »squeaker
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:31pmYep, The progressives feel like they got screwed, so now they are going to screw everyone else anyway they can
Report Post »Disabledvet
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:56pmI want to know who is checking the TSA employees before they come accross the line before they go to work.
Report Post »squeaker
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:30pmWouldn’t that be TSA 4play… :)
Report Post »aLinedog
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 7:06pmNo kidding. A terrorist could bribe them to ‘look the other way’ at an opportune time. Heheh, ask your screener this week, ‘Have any gambling debts?’ If he says “yes”, get the hell out of there.
I’m getting bored of the theater, can I go home now? Oh yeah, the Progressives destroyed it. They screw things up for everybody.
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dkhartman
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:29pmOH MY! But but but… what if a terroists KILLS a flight attendant and takes over her identity and uses her ‘get through security grope sessions’ pass to board a plane. No way nope, can’t happen. THEY MUST go through the radiation and/or grope sessions just like the rest of us Americans Just IN CASE a terrorists were to assume a flight attendants identity. I mean after all, it’s for the safety of the Americans. JUST IN CASE it happens…
Report Post »PatriotMomof5
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 3:09amThat would be difficult since 9/11.
Report Post »MellonCrib
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:28pmFlight Attendants have schedules. Knowing when and on which flight a certain person is going to be bypassing security checks could be an invatation to disaster.
Report Post »James
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:12pmReally, how so?
Report Post »Planada Conservative
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:27pmLet me get this straight. The health care plan was for everybody (except of congress of course). Then they start handing out exemptions. Now more of the same with TSA. Make a stupid rule/law/regulation, then exempt those with governement influence, or who are organized labor. What a country…
Report Post »ICANHANDLETHETRUTH
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:24pmI wonder how many times the average flight attendant would have to go through the scanners per month, and what toll would that take on their body ?? Hmm I wonder about the radiation.. Hmm
Report Post »squeaker
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:34pmIt should be NO PROBLEM at all for them… the TSA says it’s as safe as several minutes at altitude.
Report Post »PatriotMomof5
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 3:07amThank you for pointing that out. A domestic flight attendant can go through security several times on a 3 day trip. Internationally not as often. There is a high incidence of cancers among flight attendants who have flown for many years. Adding the additional radiation to our job is unacceptable. We get enough as it is. We should be screened and checked like the pilots. As for our passengers, start demanding profiling! Isreal has a successful and safe history, we too could be the same.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:20pmagreed, but then again so should everyone.
Report Post »Anonimouse
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:07pmAnyone out there a mechanic, baggage handler, etc.? What kind of security are you going through? I‘m sure they’re not putting the guys on graveyard shift throught the strip scanner.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:03pmi DON’T THINK SOOOO
Report Post »Highland
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:02pmNo kidding. Oh, but that would make sense, and we all know that’s a foreign concept to the TSA and this idiotic administration.
Report Post »cubber
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:24pmThe more pain we ALL experience, the greater chance of having the intrusiveness stopped. Make them do through the screening. Maybe we should station the TSA agents along the Southwest border.
Report Post »Marcia
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:47pmMilitary retirees should be exempt also. We’ve served for over 20 years, WE are not the enemy.
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:00pmTerrorists could just get in the long, long, long crowded lines in the terminals get up to the TSA agents and then blow everyone to wherever they think there going. There will now be the TSA Police Force(union) to protect the TSA workers(union) from terrorists and irate citizens.
Report Post »James
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:10pmYes they should, this is a no-brainer. Oh wait, the TSA is a government agency.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:32pmThe voice of reason which will surely be ignored. Maybe if you say it louder.
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