[MR] Blame the *terrorists*

[Peters, Rise J.]

Anarra wrote:

> The "Greedy Airlines" aren't the one's paying the air port security 
> screeners minimum wage and giving them poor training.

Setting the adjective aside, it is the airlines who are legally and
financially responsible for passenger screening at airports.  At each
airport, the regularly scheduled carriers make up a consortium that hires a
contractor to provide screening.  Normally this is done by balancing the
cost of the contractors bid against their performance (since failures in
performance are penalized by a $10,000+ per-incident FAA fine).

The real problem here is that the weapons used to take over these planes
would not have been stopped by anything short of a body cavity search.
Realistically, we can't keep razor blades and similar "shanks" out of
maximum security prisons, much less out of commercial aircraft.  

=Rise Sheridan-Peters (who's an airport lawyer, when she's not a kitchen
wench)