Tuesday August 29, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

What good does it do for air travel if the stricter, more precautionary, anti-terror measures implemented on some flights are not implemented on all flights?

There have been a series of serious terror scares in the air ever since the plan to explode 10 trans-Atlantic flights was uncovered and thwarted.
People - crews and passengers alike - are jittery.

A Northwestern flight from Minnesota to Amsterdam to India was turned back over Germany because of an unruly family.
Turns out they were only rude, not a serious threat.

A flight from London to DC was forced down in an emergency landing at Boston's Logan airport because a woman on board had Vaseline, matches and a screwdriver - all contraband items since the London scare.
How did she get on a trans-Atlantic plane with so many illegal items so soon after a threat to hijack 10 trans-Atlantic planes?
She boarded the plane in Abu Dhabi.
Sadly, the new boarding restrictions do not apply in Abu Dhabi.
Turns out the female passenger was only claustrophobic, not a serious threat.

BUT, she could just have easily boarded with a bomb in Abu Dhabi, disembarked in London and let the plane continue onto to DC.
Think about it.