Why not?
Posted on 12/26/2009 10:10:05 AM PST by kristinn
MONTREAL December 26, 2009 -- Air Canada advises passengers travelling to the U.S. that due to enhanced government security measures air travellers should arrive early at airports to allow extra time to clear security screening. Passengers should also expect flight delays, cancellations and missed connections, and limit themselves to a single piece of carry-on baggage.
Air Canada recommends passengers travelling to the U.S. to arrive early at the airport for their flight in order to allow adequate time for additional personal searches. Under new rules enacted by Transport Canada and the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, passengers and their carry-on baggage will be subject to full searches both at airport screening points and prior to boarding at the aircraft gate area.
As a result of the added security precautions, passengers should also expect delayed and cancelled flights as well as missed connections. Air Canada will endeavour to transport passengers to their destination as quickly as possible and rebook passengers who miss their connections at no charge. While these measures directly affect only flights from Canada to the United States, domestic and international flights may also experience delays due to airport congestion and delayed aircraft. For information on a flight's status please consult www.aircanada.com.
In addition, new rules imposed by Transport Canada will limit the amount of carry-on baggage to one item per person travelling on flights from Canada to the United States. Existing checked baggage rules remain in effect. For details on checked baggage allowances, please consult http://www.aircanada.com/en/travelinfo/airport/baggage/index.html.
"The safety of our customers and staff is our number one priority at Air Canada," said Duncan Dee, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. "Our operations teams will be working closely with airport and government authorities to minimize any inconvenience to our customers and to ensure that our customers reach their destinations safely and comfortably."
New rules imposed by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration also limit on-board activities by customers and crew in U.S. airspace that may adversely impact on-board service. Among other things, during the final hour of flight customers must remain seated, will not be allowed to access carry-on baggage, or have personal belongings or other items on their laps.
More information for customers on affected flights, including options for rebooking cancelled flights online and updates on delayed baggage tracking, is available at www.aircanada.com.
fox .. Lufthansa flight setting down in Greenland due to abandoned set fo bags aboard plane, passenger did not get on flight. hmmm?
Why the Holidays?
Do we blow them up in Ramadan? Do we harass them in their enclaves on our shores?
This is crazy. Something Our Founding Fathers perhaps never envisioned ,, or did they?
They gave us the tools to keep this Republic.
Do we have the skills and gumption to use them against all those violently opposing our rights and freedoms?
Do our leaders share our Founding Fathers vision?
Time to release the hounds of war upon those who even now openly wage it on civilian populations.
How’s the water temperature, Mr. Obama? Nice and sunny today?
My wife and I traveled to Las Vegas last year from the Los Angeles area. When planning our trip, I wasn’t thrilled to have to put up with the nonsense one had to at the airports these days. We decided to drive.
When you start adding up the time involved to get there and back, it doesn’t take much longer to drive.
Super-shuttle to airport. Early check in. Waiting for the flight to board. Boarding. Flight time. Waiting for your luggage at the destination. Taking it over to the cab loading zone. Traveling to your hotel. Tipping of three different individuals.
The travel time works out to be a bit more. The cost works out to be better, if you drive. The quality of your experience is much better. And in addition, when you get to Vegas, you have a vehicle to drive around to different places you want to go.
I don’t like the airport experience any longer. The mystique of flying has turned into more of an eastern block checkpoint experience. Ah, no thanks. If I can avoid it, I do not fly.
The bomber was buckled in minding his own business. It wasn’t like he was up out of his seat roaming around. The hero was though. Score a victory for AQ.
I had the solution to airport delays back in 2001, but no one will listen.
Make all passengers remove their clothes and board naked.
Will take a fraction of the time now spent in line.
Put all clothes on a freight hauler which will follow the plane carrying the passengers.
After landing, reunite clothes and people.
Why not?
Just another indignity, courtesy our government and our so courteous friendly air carriers.
SUSPECTED terrorist list....which is why he was not on the NO FLY list.
Apparently we are maintaining two terrorist watch lists. One is a no fly list and the other is an "OK to fly" list. He was on the "terrorists OK'd to fly" list.
“What if somebody needs to go to the potty?”
That’s easy. Make everybody fly with their pants down and install toilets for everyone instead of seats.
Problem solved.
“How long before each passenger is bound and gagged”
How silly, this could all be settled by simply flying nude. Perhaps the airlines could provide little paper coverings to those concerned about modesty. :^)
Gee, Johnny Walker, Adam Gadahn, etc.
...lots of older white men women looking to bring down planes, you think?
Here you demonstrate your lack of thinking......two older white women brought down two Russian jets by hiding bombs in their bras.
...but I know the difference between a Mexican and an Arab..
Really? I guarantee you can't tell, visually, which is which.
Because this man was black....and so are many of the terrorists.
There is no 'race' for these people.
As far as looking for a muslim name, genius, I guess you never heard of fake IDs.
But this particular, specific named individual was on a list of suspect individuals. Must we wait until a specific attack is attempted, or succeeds, before any pre-emptive action can be taken? Apparently the answer is “Yes!”
But you can see the mayhem that is created, by one lone person, even when the event fails....millions suffer inconvenience....
Driving only works for trips of a certain length. I looked into driving to Vegas, but the trip is nearly 2000 miles each way.
It was 3 1/2 hours flying at $190 round trip or 18 hours of driving each way with at least one night in a hotel and $300 gas for the round trip.
Until these new rules came into effect, flying was still relatively painless. There was no wait at security, and apart from the idiocy of taking off shoes, it wasn’t overly invasive.
I am not familiar with the list in question...are you?
There are people on the 'no-fly' list that do not belong there and have difficulty getting removed. If this list is one level below, it is probably rife with mistakes.
Yes, I agree with that. It’s prohibitive if we’re talking much in excess of 400 miles.
Hmmm...This means "all", not just 30%, of nuns, handicapped in wheelchairs, senior citizens over the age of 80, and infants will be forced to submit to being handcuffed, strip-searched, and cavity searched before being allowed past security...
We can all feel much safer now. His holiness, Obamao, protects us.....
Now now, we mustn’t call a spade a spade, THAT would be profiling. And that’s wrong....
/sarc
If I practiced medicine the way they practice security I would attempt a prostate exam on every man woman and child who wandered through the ER.
What a retrofit that would require....LOL
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