Here's a new one from the local T.S.A....

[G2T]

Yesterday we were in ABE and I wanted to go to Subway to get some lunch. Being that we don't park on a jetway, I had to find someone to let me upstairs. The guy from our operations said that he has to escort me up there. I didn't think anything of it, I thought he would show me to the elevator and let me go, I was wrong. Apparently they are required to walk with me into the terminal "Sterile" area, wait in line while I get a sandwich, and then escort me back down to operations (where I am free to walk outside). I don't fault the employee for the rule, he was just following C.Y.A. What I don't understand is why can I be on the airplane, walk on the ramp, and walk around operations, but I can't go into the terminal? I have reached a new level of confusion and frustration with trying to keep up with every airports special policies and local procedures. Sometimes I feel as if the flight crews are perceived as the biggest threat.

 

[EMB170Pilot]

cry me a river

 

[G2T]

I will cry baldy, everyday, for all of you triple seventy five drivers that think they are the epicenter of aviation standards and advancement.

 

[ReverseSensing]

Yesterday we were in ABE and I wanted to go to Subway to get some lunch. Being that we don't park on a jetway, I had to find someone to let me upstairs. The guy from our operations said that he has to escort me up there. I didn't think anything of it, I thought he would show me to the elevator and let me go, I was wrong. Apparently they are required to walk with me into the terminal "Sterile" area, wait in line while I get a sandwich, and then escort me back down to operations (where I am free to walk outside). I don't fault the employee for the rule, he was just following C.Y.A. What I don't understand is why can I be on the airplane, walk on the ramp, and walk around operations, but I can't go into the terminal? I have reached a new level of confusion and frustration with trying to keep up with every airports special policies and local procedures. Sometimes I feel as if the flight crews are perceived as the biggest threat.

You should have seen if you could have ditched the guy...you know, SPY vs. SPY style. As to your main point, yes, the TSA is a largely ineffective organization, but fabulous at inventing pointless "rules."

 

[DX Rick]

CVG, saw a DAL pilot go through the puffer, then get wanded when he never set the alarm off....It was part of the "random selection"
Pay no attention to the girl/guy behind the burka. Because we can't ask them to remove it for ID.......ok, not sure if they can't ask them to remove it or not, but I would be more suspect as to why someone is hiding thier face, over a aging old fart who flies for Delta.

 

[Salukipilot4590]

I will cry baldy, everyday, for all of you triple seventy five drivers that think they are the epicenter of aviation standards and advancement.

PWND!

 

[Prop2Jet]

Take him to the bathroom and drop some ass in a stall ! don't wash your hands and then go to subway and offer to buy him something ! he he he

 

[DannyNoonan]

i know i feel safer because pax can only carry liquids in 3 oz containers! genius!!

 

[acaTerry]

i know i feel safer because pax can only carry liquids in 3 oz containers! genius!!

So get this...PHX Sky Harbor airport authority gives out the plastic bags, in a 1 qt size. So I get to moth$&% Fu%#&%$# HPN, and the TSA says I can't use the bag. WHY you might ask? Because the bags that PHX gives, and are OK at EVERY airport I have been to, have a drawstring instead of a zipper. SOOOOOOO....HPN bad boy TSA lectures me and makes me leave the checkpoint to go get an HPN approved ZipLoc bag. Freaking yankees.

 

[CherryBomb]

Tell T.S.A. that you have a big sharp (crash) axe and there is nothing they can do about it...