TSA New Directive (CREWS)

[JS]

What an asinine directive. DEN would be really bad considering the vast distance between the gates and the security checkpoint.

Isn't it a little early for April 1?

 

[allstrike]

Looks like another attempt to make it look like there doing something instead of dealing with the problem...

 

[Travelpro72]

Air travel will be much safer now due to this. If I have a deadhead I will intentionally go to the back of the line and NOT use my ability to jump the line to get there. When crews start missing flights like deadheads to be in position in another ciy for a flight we'll see what happens. I was in MCO the day after the BS happened. So let me ask this, will ground workers STILL be able to pass behind the B ticketing counter through the door WITHOUT getting screened? Hmmmmm.

 

[allstrike]

Air travel will be much safer now due to this. If I have a deadhead I will intentionally go to the back of the line and NOT use my ability to jump the line to get there. When crews start missing flights like deadheads to be in position in another ciy for a flight we'll see what happens. I was in MCO the day after the BS happened. So let me ask this, will ground workers STILL be able to pass behind the B ticketing counter through the door WITHOUT getting screened? Hmmmmm.

Keep it up and well be going through x/ray to get to work. :down: :down: :down:

Sir,is that a tool in that cavity...uh..just a second....Martha get the gloves...

 

[l8rd8r]

Air travel will be much safer now due to this. If I have a deadhead I will intentionally go to the back of the line and NOT use my ability to jump the line to get there. When crews start missing flights like deadheads to be in position in another ciy for a flight we'll see what happens. I was in MCO the day after the BS happened. So let me ask this, will ground workers STILL be able to pass behind the B ticketing counter through the door WITHOUT getting screened? Hmmmmm.

I was just getting use to the scramble code in CLT. Who's bright idea was this one?

 

[jimntx]

I was just getting use to the scramble code in CLT. Who's bright idea was this one?

We have a crewmember at an unnamed U.S. airline at (I think) MCO to thank for this. He/she smuggled weapons through a non-TSA-attended employee portal. He/she then boarded a flight to SJU with the weapons with the intent to sell them there. Apparently, he/she arrested upon arrival at SJU.

 

[autofixer]

So why not arrest the perp and punish them and that would be that? Every career field has their idoits...did you see the off duty cop severly beat that poor girl bartender? Are they going to tell all cops that they can no longer drink or go into a bar? Instead we put more draconian rules in place that affect everyone. One day we will wake up and live in der Fatherland. Geez! What TSA should realize is, most crews have had it with this junk and we don't care anymore. We will go to the back of the longest line and miss our flights. Who cares? It is truely becoming that "Atlas Shurgged" moment.

 

[jimntx]

Oh, I wouldn't despair just yet. First off, our companies are working to get this changed because it affects them as much as us. Also, this will probably be like the "liquids rule also applies to working crewmembers" fiasco that lasted a day or two before the rule was modified.

Looking beyond the immediate rule-making at possible consequences is not the TSA's strong suit. Be patient.

 

[N965VJ]

<SNIP> Sir,is that a tool in that cavity...uh..just a second....Martha get the gloves...

No, just magnets. Honest!

 

[PHLfa88]

Air travel will be much safer now due to this. If I have a deadhead I will intentionally go to the back of the line and NOT use my ability to jump the line to get there. When crews start missing flights like deadheads to be in position in another ciy for a flight we'll see what happens. I was in MCO the day after the BS happened. So let me ask this, will ground workers STILL be able to pass behind the B ticketing counter through the door WITHOUT getting screened? Hmmmmm.

I Have A Deadhead Out Of CLT Next Month And I Will Find THE Longest Line And NOT Go Through The Universal Door!!

 

[PA18]

If I have a deadhead I will intentionally go to the back of the line and NOT use my ability to jump the line to get there. When crews start missing flights like deadheads to be in position in another ciy for a flight we'll see what happens.

Perhaps you missed that TSA issuance, also.

IIRC, some suit at that agency was recently quoted as saying that crewmembers are not entitled to any priority with regard to lines at the checkpoint.

That, and this most recent bit of droppings from the TSA, presents a golden opportunity for crewmembers to expose these foolish policies for what they are, if the crewmembers would only choose to exploit it.

All it would take would be one day -- maybe even just one morning -- of all crewmembers queueing up at the very back of the security lines, and the subsequent delays that would result, to get the public, the pandering politicians, the media, and even clueless airline management to pressure the TSA to change its policy toward crewmembers.

Then again, getting airline crewmembers -- especially pilots -- to unify about anything would be like trying to herd cats.

 

[FWAAA]

Also, this will probably be like the "liquids rule also applies to working crewmembers" fiasco that lasted a day or two before the rule was modified.

From a frequent passenger perspective, the relaxation of the no-liquids rule (allowing working or nonrev crew to carry all the liquids they want) was the best thing the TSA could do to demonstrate to the infrequent vacationers the complete lunacy of the liquids nonsense.

I've spoken to countless former "anything is Ok if it improves our security" sheople who now realize that nearly all of the TSA's rules and rituals amount to nothing more than poor theatre.

Move along, folks. Won't find any real security here.

 

[autofixer]

Yea...most of our linguine spined Captains would only force the crews to leave 30-60 minutes earlier from the hotel. Anything to get the last three years in; the heck with the profession that served them so well.

 

[ussnark]

We have a crewmember at an unnamed U.S. airline at (I think) MCO to thank for this. He/she smuggled weapons through a non-TSA-attended employee portal. He/she then boarded a flight to SJU with the weapons with the intent to sell them there. Apparently, he/she arrested upon arrival at SJU.

How did he/she get identified? and why would that affect any other crewmember? Sounds like a personal problem, to me.

 

[jimntx]

How did he/she get identified? and why would that affect any other crewmember? Sounds like a personal problem, to me.

I have no idea how they were identified. However, the reality is that one bad apple can cause a lot of problems for everyone else. The assumption among most law enforcement agencies, TSA and others, is that if they catch one, there are probably countless others that they didn't catch--like speeders on the freeway.

What this has done for all practical purposes is eliminate employee-only portals into the SIDA unless there are TSA personnel available to control the portal.