BA will refuse to fly with armed guards

observer.guardian.co.uk ^ | Sunday January 4, 2004 | Juliette Jowit, transport editor

[American in Israel]

The ability of the brainwashed mind to ignore the obvious is stunning. The anti-gun campain marches on, right for the cliffs.

[KQQL]

English culture is ANTi-Gun.........

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[Jar Jar Binks]

Controversial plans to put armed guards on British passenger planes were in disarray last night after British Airways effectively refused to fly with them aboard because it would mean there was a 'significant threat' to passengers.

And terrorists aren't? Time to ban all british planes from our airspace.

[American in Israel]

Yeah, reality need not apply. Scary isn't it?

[Monty22]

Don't allow BA into the USA, seriously.

Cut them loose.

[OldFriend]

If this is true, they can feel free to fly anywhere but to the US

[C210N]

This article leads me to the solution for the Air Piracy problem...

While boarding a flight's passengers, randomly hand out (notice no profiling here!) handguns to, say, 20% of them (adjust the percentage according to results, costs, etc).

Now, unless the bad guys manage to completely book for themselves the flight, they will be outnumbered fire-power wise.

Then, only those chartered flights - flights completely booked by terrorists, will be hijacked.

[Search4Truth]

There is no more pathetic example of a man, no more worthless waste of masculinity, than a man who will not protect himself and those weaker than he.

Only fools, cowards, criminals and terrorists are afraid of good men with guns.

[TexasTransplant]

The Passengers must feel much safer knowing that Morons of this caliber are responsible for their safety.

[KQQL]

good point

[TexasTransplant]

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[river rat]

MEMO to Staff:

Employees may NOT fly British Air on business trips.
The company will NOT reimburse employees who violate this directive on business trip...
The company's Group Life Insurance will NOT pay out Death Benefits to those killed while traveling on British Air.

Semper Fi

[Archangelsk]

The union wants better land-based security instead. 'The Twin Towers [terrorist attacks in New York in 2001] happened not because there were no sky marshals but because there was lax security on the ground,' added the spokesman.

Excellent point. Try to imagine if the two recent wheel-well popsicles were terrorists with explosives strapped to them controlled by a timer or altimeter. They breached ground security and no amount of sky marshalling would have been able to stop a hypothetical incident like this.

[LibertyThug]

This is an example of what the 'gun control agenda' people
have created - nonsensical wimps.
Maybe this is one of those times when people really do get what they deserve...

SAD

[hershey]

This will change as soon as one of their own planes explodes over London or dive bombs Buckingham Palace.

[CindyDawg]

No problem. Just stay out of our airspace. We don't need British unions telling us what to do.

[pabianice]

Let's see: BA refuses to let armed guards fly because guards are more danferous than terrorists; a terrorist will destroy the entire airplane and kill everyone, but an armed guard might be able to disable the terrorist and save everyone's life.

BA's behavior meets the definition of insanity.

[Howlin]

British Airways effectively refused to fly with them aboard because it would mean there was a 'significant threat' to passengers.

Do they think that the terrorits are targeting the armed guards?