Speaking of the bus...

It's so funny how, as an ATL pilot, you spend all week flying airliners around and then you go to get on the bus at a shift change and it's welcome back to middle school. Between rampers, FAs, red coats, gate agents, ramp controllers, ops people, sometimes the bus just makes you lose faith in your fellow coworker.

I was hoping, still hoping, that the end result of the ATL security changes that those buses just run from the parking lot to the terminal and we clear security there and then catch the bus back from there. Outside of going to terminal E which runs a bus every 2 minutes, it would be a heck of a lot quicker I bet. I broke a personal record the other day, got to the shed at 20:02, got to the crew room in A at 20:45. I think going straight to the terminal would be faster.

BTW, was reading the USA Today, they listed a January (I guess this year?) incident of a FAA inspector arrested for carrying a gun in the cockpit of one of our flights? Not to mention the gun smuggling and the fact they said they only check current employees against a terror watch list and not for criminal activity. So you can amass felonies after you're hired just not before. Yeah I think it'd be good if we just go through security.

Federal officials consider screening all airport workers