More TSA BS!!!!!

[a320drivr]

Effective immediately, the TSA now requires that all employees going through the security checkpoints for screening must remove their badge from the pouch or lanyard and physically hand their badge to the TSA document checker for verification.

This is a nation wide requirement – the TSA thanks us for our cooperation

This was sent out to us today by our company.

 

[Freight Dog]

Look at it this way... they're encouraging more pilots to join the FFDO program and make our skies even safer.

 

[JPAustin]

Hmmm. I hope they don't start asking for certificates, because I ain't surrendering my certificate to anybody who can't read it in the first place (TSA agent). In fact, that is probably why they are requiring the removal of the IDs, because them little word critters r 2 fer away to see in erder ta use phonics to sownd out thm funny lookin' words on that ther' ID teg.

 

[7574EVER]

I'll be the first to admit that, over the years, the TSA has come up with some really pointless (lets make the dumb public feel safe) rules. This one though, I don't find all that bad. I dare you to go to any bar on a friday or saturday night and try to count on one hand the number of minors chugging down a cold one with a fake id in their pocket. ID's aren't too difficult to replicate. Lets face it. Our airline ID's aren't anything more than a piece of plastic with our picture on it. It wouldn't be too difficult to duplicate a crew badge that would look real. Especially at a quick glance from a distance through a plastic pouch.

Again, I'm NOT defending the TSA. I'm just saying that this particular rule isn't all that unresonable.

 

[Donald]

Being an FFDO won't make that part any easier. You get to bypass security, but they give your ID much more scrutiny. They take your crew ID and creds and check them very closely for authenticity. Some airports even ask for a third or fourth form of picture ID. This aggravates many FFDOs, but hello, they're letting you through with a loaded handgun. All law enforcement get the same scrutiny.

 

[Vne]

Hay Alpa Where The F*** Is The Universal Access Id System You Promised

 

[NuGuy]

You could always do the ID equivilent of the "stinky palm"

Nu

 

[Caveman]

If I'm reading this correctly, all you have to do is actually hand your I.D. to the checker. IOW, you can't just wave it at them anymore. So, as I read it, simply take off your lanyard, or unclip your badge from your shirt and hand the whole thing to them. I don't think you have to actually slide it out of the plastic sleeve. Anybody else read it the same way?

 

[jws717]

Yup and make them take it out of the protector for you.

 

[LearLove]

Hay Alpa Where The F*** Is The Universal Access Id System You Promised

Prater "took it back"

they determined after a "some colored" ribbon panel that the UAIS wasn't going to net them an extra 2% like recruiting fdx or cal or age 65 would so it was dropped.

UAIS wasn't going to pay for the BOD meeting on a yatch in miami so its on the back burner.