Heres what I propose to remedy the situation.
Create a new airline, call it Freedom Air.
No metal detectors, no screeners, no hassles whatsoever. Guns, explosive devices, knives, scissors, box cutters, shoe bombs, zip guns, etc... all welcome.
Then all the whiners can fly themselves and their families on it after signing a legally binding document that absolves the airline and the US government from all liability in case of a terrorist incident.
Course you may have trouble rounding up enough suicidal pilots and flight attendants but at least the whiners would shut their pie holes...permanently.
Walkin Man wrote:I'd certainly fly on such an airline.
Heres what I propose to remedy the situation.Create a new airline, call it Freedom Air.
No metal detectors, no screeners, no hassles whatsoever. Guns, explosive devices, knives, scissors, box cutters, shoe bombs, zip guns, etc... all welcome.
Then all the whiners can fly themselves and their families on it after signing a legally binding document that absolves the airline and the US government from all liability in case of a terrorist incident.
I also think that such an airline would operate without much risk of hijackings or other violence in the air.
The big problem is that it is absolutely illegal today to operate an airline in that way. That's the problem.
I would like to be the one to start it. I would have visibly armed attendants, and uniformed guards by the cockpit! The list of things that are mentioned, as being allowed, are your little bit of idiocy, but I would not have people taking off their shoes, nor standing in long lines, for nothing! The technology already exists to detect a bomb. Machines can detect gunpowder, but checked guns would never be forbidden....
I would sell out every flight, especially if the folk didn't have to show up forteen hours before a flight (a slight exageration, though, it justs seems so, while you are waiting in those lllllllllllooooooonnnnnggggggg lines!!!!)!