Originally Posted by WorkinStiff

Just be glad you're not flying supplemental private charters. These clowns are driving us crazy. We sometimes have to do our own screening. At BWI, they watched a crew screen with binoculars from the parking lot. They waited until everyone was onboard, came out and told the Captain they saw something they didn't like, it was a Mickey Mouse deal, and made them deplane and rescreen. I've had them demand to see my security training records (wait while I get it out of the filing cabinet in the back) entire crew refused passage thru screening because " your airline's not based here", have to open and visually inspect every catered meal. I've even had one of these idiots tell me "I could hold up the President's plane if I wanted to". Prepare for even worse because this is an agency that's flexing it's new found muscles in a quest for even more power.