No more UK flights for CJ

[cjsmith]

I'll get on a transatlantic plane without carry-on luggage when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

(Or when they pay me the full replacement price of my checked luggage when I board. On the unlikely chance I ever see it again, and on time too, I'll gladly refund the money... minus a modest handling charge. AND they must have at least three decent full-length novels in the passenger cabin for me, as that's how many I'll need.)

Comments

[davidlevine]

I doubt the no-carryons-at-all restriction (which currently applies only to UK-to-US flights anyway) will last more than a week. Too many government officials fly frequently for that one to last.

The no-liquids-or-gels restriction is likely to be permanent, because (like the thing with the shoes) it's a slam of a specific barn door, it appears to be "doing something," and it's not so appallingly intrusive that the public will rise up in anger against it.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

As for the first, that'd be my guess as well, but I am not sure. Airlines hate carry-on luggage. (My theory is that they cannot STAND the idea that, at the other end of the flight, the customer still has ANY of his personal belongings!)

[davidlevine]

It's because they Hate Freedom.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That must be it!