A plane takes off from Glasgow airport, but airline crews are warning that the new security measures may ground aviation entirely Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA
Posted on 08/18/2006 10:49:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary described some of the security measures as "farcical, Keystone Kops-like and completely insane and ineffectual". Pilots also attacked the measures, which ban them from taking toothpaste on to aircraft, and said subjecting flight crews to the same restrictions as passengers made "no sense at all"... Ryanair demanded the government return passenger-search requirements to pre-alert levels. It also wants the government to restore the hand-luggage allowance for passengers leaving British airports, and an assurance that military and police personnel would be released to help with airport security checks next time there is a major alert. Mr O'Leary yesterday gave the government a seven-day deadline to make the changes or face legal action, arguing that some of the security measures had been stupid and it was "completely untenable" to expect airport staff to continue working flat-out to cope with the new regulations. He said the delays at airports in the last few days had been "entirely preventable if the government had put in a couple of hundred police or army personnel" to help airport staff... Banning items such as water bottles and toothpaste was "nuts" and the terrorists "must be rolling around the caves of Pakistan, laughing". He said it was "complete horse manure" to infer that passengers either faced delays or death.
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A plane takes off from Glasgow airport, but airline crews are warning that the new security measures may ground aviation entirely Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA
We're laughing out here, too.
He went on: "The best way to defeat terrorists and extremists is for ordinary people to continue to live their lives as normal.
"We are not in danger of dying at the hands of toiletries. Normal security measures have successfully prevented any terrorist attack on any British plane in the last 25 years."
Hmm. 25 years? When was the Scottish airliner blown up in the air?
:"D
is that a prop plane?
Please tell me that isn't real. The woman in the back ground seems to be watching them:')
Well, Pan Am 103 wasn't a British plane, which is why it was Pan American and not Pan Brittanian, or whatever. It did depart Heathrow, however, 18 years ago, after a brief stopover. More importantly, Pan Am 103 originated in Frankfurt and that's certainly where the explosive cargo made it on board, to be where it was at. To be more precise, it was an unaccompanied suitcase routed automatically from an Air Malta flight to Pan Am 103 in Frankfurt.
They are laughing because we are too stupid to profile.
here's hoping the Iranian nutjob laughs like Saddam
acetone peroxide not detectable by bomb-sniffing systems,
the new measures are completely appropriate
Nowadays they are rewarded with 72 virgins for blowing up themselves along with passengers.
We're more fearful of being labelled racists by democrats than we are of another 9/11.
I'm not. :')
Despite the poor grammar and syntax of your post, your message is LOUD AND CLEAR!
We in the Western world MUST wake up to the danger posed by the moon-worshipping heathens, and either drive them from the gates of civilization, or erase them from the face of the Earth, or perish.
READ the screed they believe in. Our choices are obvious.
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