Originally Posted by
TangoBar
Whether it's right or not is immaterial- it's not like AMF wants that stuff. It's required for security (likely TSA). The AMF CP has to act as "Ground Security Coordinator" and whatnot, the stuff that's handled by TSA with their X-ray machines and metal detectors and omnipresent "Your luggage has been searched for your safety and convenience" pamphlets in a real terminal. Keep in mind, most AMF operations happen on small airports that don't have full-time (or any) security aside from a fence- and not even that at a lot of places.
(a) Airline passengers (and crews) have to go through essentially the same "BS" at the terminal security checkpoint, using more sophisticated equipment than is available on the freight ramp. And yes, the CASS check, bag search, pat down, etc., are prequired by Ameriflight's TSA security program.
(b) AMF has trips that will get SWA pilots back home after the last SWA flight from the domicile has already gone -- a more desirable option, some of them think, that RONing and going home the next morning. In some cases, those SWA folks are in airplanes, and on routes, that they used to fly. . . .