Airport security

[Moscow Mule]

I've had a razor from Singapore Airlines, Quantas and Emirates.

Interesting. Never had one from BA, Air NZ, Air France, JAL or AA.

I think a skilled operator can pick up things hidden in laptops. The question is, how many of them are skilled and how many are just going through the motions?

[Scary]

Hijacking by threatening with razor blades (or Stanley knives or whatever) and then flying into a building will not be allowed to happen again after 2001-09-11 because the passengers wouldn't think twice now about one hostage being killed. So why ban razorblades? To make people feel safer.

[Mich the Tester]

I remember reading an interesting comment by a US senator or some such silly old roman rank saying that if we gave you the option of having 2 planes. One with no security and you could go straight on, the other with 4 hours of security screening, which you send your family on?

I’d send the family on the secure one and fly on the non-secure one myself. That way I could arrive 5 minutes before the flight and have time at the other end to rent a car and have a pie before picking up the rest of them.

It's an excellent idea and I wish the senator well in implementing this policy.

[Money Money Money]

A game keeper friend of mine had 2 chaps from belgium fly over to stalk deer last week, they brought their own rifles and ammo with them.

They said security was high their end but just picked their rifles up off the conveyor belt in the UK, also ammo was taken in hand luggage!