Non-rev and commuting just got harder

[buscap]

From the ASA Employee Site:

The TSA has just implemented a new security directive which will be effective immediately. This directive mandates that all airline employees traveling as a passenger, either revenue or non-rev, must enter the airport sterile area through the screening checkpoint. Employees traveling as passengers must undergo screening of their person and accessible property at the screening checkpoint.

 

[COOPERVANE]

nope......... I'm not gonna do it!!!

 

[pipers]

They have made us do this in SLC for a few years.....know a FA who got fired after they brought the plane back to the gate for non-compliance..

 

[G2T]

Another TSA dog and pony show. It amazes me every single day how they single out the flight crews who are probably the lowest risk employees in the entire airport. The other day we were dead heading out on the same plane we brought in. They made us get off the airplane, (WE LEFT OUR LUGGAGE ON THE PLANE) go outside the sterile area, come back through screening, and then get back on the airplane.

 

[Icelandair]

While groups who hire questionable people from third world countries like the menzies get to simply bypass security with their fully loaded backpacks. What a farce.

 

[rhino3040]

It doesn't seem to amaze me that we have to start doing this, but what I don't understand is why the hell pilots have to be screened and rescreened with badges, and so fourth and your typical ramp rat with more access to safety areas has the right to bypass everything without the same level of screening. Its the officials of airports that are making these rules not realizing where the real weak areas are. Its a image for the pax and that's it.

 

[Poahi]

What happened with getting the crews exempt from the screening process in the first place. This is a step backward.

 

[andym037]

This may sound like a stupid question, but don't you always have to go thhrough security when you commute? I always have.

 

[HelloNewman]

Here is a tip for your commute. Call uhaul morons!!! this way you won't have to deal with the commute drama. Live in domicle and quit yer whining!!!

 

[gnx99]

What's the big deal with having to go through security? I went through it essentially everyday at Mesaba, even when in uniform. In the grand scheme of life, is it really that big of a deal?

 

[bacardi]

a$$ clown TSA idiots, If I have a SIDA badge that means I have passed an FBI background check and If I can fly an airplane without running it into buildings I think i should be able to bypass security

 

[indianboy7]

a$$ clown TSA idiots, If I have a SIDA badge that means I have passed an FBI background check and If I can fly an airplane without running it into buildings I think i should be able to bypass security

Yep..and those maroons that smuggled the guns and drugs into the secure area using their SIDA badges just ruined your credibility.......

 

[DoinTime]

a$$ clown TSA idiots, If I have a SIDA badge that means I have passed an FBI background check and If I can fly an airplane without running it into buildings I think i should be able to bypass security

You may not be a threat but the guy who stole your SIDA bagde and uniform might be.

 

[bobbyice]

Thank God for the TSA...I feel so much safer every time an employee of the federal government with a sub-high school level education takes my tube of explosive toothpaste away from me. I don't even think about security when I step into the flight deck now because I know that America's finest have my back. I would much rather they concentrate their efforts on confiscating "illegal" liquids or gels than guns or explosives. Toothpaste Stealin' A$$holes.

 

[sitbackrelax]

I'm curious if this has something to do with a large kitchen knife being found on a regional flight the other day. TSA is probably trying to blame it on the flight crew, instead of just admitting their own incompetence.

 

[tyler24]

im confused dont we always have to go through security? ive never bypassed security, it feels good to show my shiny new oakley boxers i pull out of my backpack while listening to INXS on my ipod. lest we forget the hair gel i forgot at the columbia airport days inn when i was fixin my faded highlights. if anyone finds that pm me

 

[bobbyice]

There are many small airports where we don't (or didn't used to have to) go through security.

 

[SplitBar]

There are many small airports where we don't (or didn't used to have to) go through security.

You can still bypass at certain airports when you are a working crewmember. This rule they are talking about is for deadheading and non-reving and it's nothing new. For years, crewmembers have been prohibited from bypassing security when deadheading or non-reving. It is mostly on the honor system that you do it but nonetheless, people get caught here and there and are usually made an example out of. It's a very stupid thing to get fired over.

 

[atrdriver]

So please tell me how you are NOT a working crewmember when you are deadheading. If I am getting paid to be on an aircraft, I am a working crewmember.

 

[John Pennekamp]

I'm curious if this has something to do with a large kitchen knife being found on a regional flight the other day. TSA is probably trying to blame it on the flight crew, instead of just admitting their own incompetence.

My guess is that it has something to do with the Comair ramper who smuggled drugs and a bunch of guns aboard a flight from MCO to SJU last week by bypassing security.