In our Alice-in-Wonderland world of airline security TSA security guards are now confiscating knives that were actually handed out, on-board by the airlines themselves in business and first class. Better yet, the knife in question was confiscated from the a uniformed pilot.
Where oh where is common sense?
A pilot recently being rescreened after landing his international flight in the US was stripped of his butter knife handed out by his airline by TSA security checkers.
The already bizarre rules that require rescreening of all luggage and paggengers already pre-screened by TSA personnel overseas takes a turn for the worse when the pilot that landed the plane is denied passage to his continuing flight because of an airline set of cutlery.
Add this to the case of the one-inch pistol charm and the too-thin MacBook Air and it makes one wonder what sort of characters TSA is hiring to man these sensitive security posts.
Charlie Leocha is the President of Travelers United. He has been working in Washington, DC, for the past 14 years with Congress, the Department of Transportation, and industry stakeholders on travel issues. He was the first consumer representative to the Advisory Committee for Aviation Consumer Protections appointed by the Secretary of Transportation from 2012 through 2018.
