Skymonster and others, you’re going to be eating your words if something ever did happen to harm innocent lives as a result of security measures being stepped down too soon.

Yes, all this is very much an inconvenience to all passengers (more so business) but I would like to believe it is being implemented with the passenger’s safety in mind. 4 weeks out of 52 is not much to ask if it means it gives the Government(s) time to ensure that all threats their intelligence have acquired have been controlled.

Remember your stereotypical white middle-aged office businessman may also have converted to Muslim and have been brainwashed into terrorist related thoughts?

If there was a liquid bomb in hand luggage that is now in the hold, how is that safer?

Because hold baggage is subject to a much more stringent screening process that is tuned to specifically detect parts of bombs.

well done to our security services.

thanks 😀

I certainly didn’t go into work at 4:30 this morning and expect to work that hard! There’s a lot being done to prevent anything from happening so hopefully nothing will!

The heightened security alerts will be for another 72 hours at least, but stronger security enforcements (than usual) are expected to be implemented for up to 4 weeks.

There are several cancelled flights at EDI (obv Heathrow), and delays are ranging to several hours. Queues at check in are horrendous as can be expected.

Or as some may argue, blame all the meat eaters of the world. Seeing as they reckon the huge increase in cattle for the meat industry is doing a lot more harm than other sources of harmful gasses due to the…..well, fumes from the cattle.

I’m a meat eater myself, but I’m just saying it’s a combined effort. The airline industry is actually making the most effort to reduce emissions. Aerodynamic profiles are for ever being designed and introduced to save on fuel burn, and engine manufactures are putting in an immense effort to make their engines as efficient as they can.

The automotive industry are still turning out more and more fuel guzzling machines and little effort is being put into converting people to buy hybrids, or even design more economic engines. And unless governments world wide switch now to all renewables and/or nuclear, the power you are using to read this post will continue to harm the environment. And as for cows……well, who can live without meat 😀

When I flew to the Bahamas from EDI with the then new Continental service to EWR, I was search at check in then at boarding.

US flights from EDI (at least) have another company doing security checks before boarding in that instance.

But for this:

“90% of occasions when we pass through they say ‘step aside’ and she gets the full search.”

Sounds like nonsense. Either they are being asked to step aside because they have metal on them under their religious dress i.e. a belt, but they are just taking this as a sign of un-equal treatment, OR by some large coincidence they have been picked more often for a random search. Which is pretty unlikely.

Sounds as though they are using the thorough searching techniques of the airport staff as a means of discriminative search.

It’s the same old story though. A lot of the time the people that are subject to a search and then moan about it, are the same people that would complain if something did happen mid-air and security hadn’t caught an object on the ground. Lose-lose situation :confused:

Happy bday, enjoy tomorrows hangover 😉

There was a thing in the news about it the other day (24 hours news, so not a major story). It was interviewing Richard Branson who was saying that BA didn’t want the contract for the new Casino Royal and he went on to say times are changing etc and Virgins superior service is more suited to Bond’s style.

Because wave energy travels at different speeds in different mediums. Velocity of the wave ‘v’ vaires with the frequency ‘f’ multiplied by the wavelength ‘lambda’ (v=f x lambda). Therefore when the velocity of the wave is changed the frequency will alter to keep the wavelength constant.

When they say you are exposed to ‘more radiation’ when flying, they may be taking into account the radiation given off by sitting around all the electircal equipment for around 10 hours, plus radiation given off by your fellow passengers……who knows where they are getting their figures from.

If it was that big a deal I’d imagine a lot more fuss would be made about people using air travel :rolleyes:

If there were hijackers on a plane now a days, who wanted to use it like in the events of 9/11….would pilots keep the cockpit door closed and land the plane even if it meant the hijackers whould open fire on the 300 or so passengers in the cabin?

If there were no Marshals aboard could they possibly make they choice between the passengers on board or more innocent civilians on the ground?