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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.)
(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.)
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"In brief:
Hand baggage restrictions are in place;
Passengers will be handsearched;
Footwear and all items (including pushchairs and walking aids) must be x-ray screened;
Liquids will be removed from the passenger."
That last part sounds painful.... ;-)
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I'm trying to laugh at all this and hoping that "surely this can't be a permanent change in air travel", but of course that's really only a way to keep from screaming and crying and planning an escape to.... oh I don't know what country at this point. What I'm really thinking is "well, I guess this may have been about the most successful attack on 'life as we have gotten used to it' that anyone could have hoped or planned for". Sigh....
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I wonder how well this form of attack would work if people as a whole simply were not afraid of flying. People have bombed subways, and nobody has implemented metal detector and X-ray screening there. Folks just basically keep on keeping on.
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So how do we get people to not act on fear? Imagine a U.S. not ruled by fear...
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