[sd-joe]

Added security measures since the Sept. 11 terror attacks have cost airlines millions of dollars.

Right, and lack of security measures on Sept. 11 cost billions of dollars.

"We are not sure air marshals with weapons are going to guarantee safety," EU spokesman Gilles Gantelet said.

There is no single thing at all that can guarantee safety, nothing. If that is the standard, then they may just as well give up. Which is basically the standard policy of the EU anyway.

[I_dmc]

Simple solution. When in doubt, Sidewinders are always an effective solution to uncooperative behaviors.

[I_dmc]

Translation is "We don't have armed air marshalls, and that means putting American cowboys with guns on our planes, for which we'll be sued 'til we're broke."

[max_rpf]

"There are possibilities to make other efforts than putting the problem aboard an aircraft," he said. "We do not want weapons in the cabin."

Note to Bo: On September 11 the hijackers used knives. GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE. What a typical ignorant old-world simpleton. I think that most of these people just need a good ass kicking so that they realize that the world is a physical place, and not the safe theoretical nursery that they have lived in (thanks to us) for the last ~60 years.

[mewzilla]

"It may even create more problems than it solves," said Bo Eckerbert of the Swedish Aviation Administration.

Don't like it? Don't fly here. No skin off our nose...