Originally Posted by slowplay (Post 891461)

Hey, there's 10 piglets there. With your photoshop skills maybe you can name a piglet for each DCI (or former DCI) carrier from which the latest generation of Delta pilots came!:)

Originally Posted by acl65pilot (Post 891469)

Hands-on airport searches - BostonHerald.com

Airline passengers nationwide will be subjected to new aggressive and controversial body searches likened to “foreplay” pat-downs under the expansion of a program tested at Logan International Airport.

Beginning Friday, the Transportation Security Administration will start using the new front-of-the-hand, slide-down screening technique for passengers at all 450 of the nation’s commercial airports.

The more invasive pat-downs - which include over-the-clothes searches of passengers’ breast and genital areas - have raised privacy issues among civil liberties advocates. TSA screeners previously used pat-down hand motions to search passengers, switching to the backs of their hands when covering sensitive areas such as the torso.

As first reported by the Herald in August, the TSA implemented the new body-search procedures at Logan and Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport because they were using the largest number of walk-through full-body scanners at security checkpoints. Also controversial, the scanners use low-dose X-rays to produce two-sided, head-to-toe images of passengers’ bodies - including discernible but indistinct images of private parts - while blurring facial features.

The TSA declined comment on the national rollout date, but two sources confirmed it. The pat-down techniques will be included in the TSA’s new set of standard operating procedures for screening issued Friday.

Passengers who opt not to walk through the full-body scanners are subject to the searches, as well as passengers who set off metal detectors at checkpoints without the scanners. The TSA also picks random passengers for the searches.

Lots of airline passengers are in for a surprise, said Chris Ott, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, which assailed the new pat-downs when they started at Logan.

“We question the effectiveness of the methods that are being presented and the choice that travelers are being given,” he said. “. . . Travelers are being asked to choose between being scanned ‘naked’ and exposed to radiation, or getting what people are describing as just a highly invasive search by hands of their entire bodies.”

Kate Hinni, founder of the non-profit FlyersRights.org consumer group, said the new searches amount to a “foreplay pat-down” that for many people is going to “feel like a moral issue.”

“It’s like having to choose the lesser of two evils,” Hinni said. “Both are horribly invasive.”
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Originally Posted by Bucking Bar (Post 891482)

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Originally Posted by Rogue24 (Post 891497)

I get the impression that the reason for the new type of TSA screening procedures are for a reason. My guess is they have specific information that they are targeting. It seems to include pilots too.

This is what I noticed.

Originally Posted by orvil (Post 891506)

Does anyone have any firm intel as to the identities of the candidates for MEC Chairman? I heard that Kingsley's one of them. Who else?

Originally Posted by NuGuy (Post 891533)

Heyas,

Good back and forth on the DCI thing.

I agree. Dusted off airplanes are not "growth airplanes". Not to mention the loss of 14 frieghters, 10 757s and over 100 DC-9-30s (just from the NWA side), and forfeiture of an entire market segment.

DCI ASMs may very well be down, but consider this, what ASMs were lost and is that flying that mainline pilots have done in the past?

If XJ pulls off a Saab or an RJ from Topeka or Iron Mountain, when was the last time a mainline pilot performed that flying (if ever)? Obviously we want all the flying, but if the ASMs are shifted from flying that wasn't performed (recently) by mainline pilots to flying that was, it still represents a net loss of flying for mainline pilots even if the DCI ASMs are down as a whole.

Walk down the A Concourse in DTW (or B...or C..sigh), and you will see DCI flying almost entirely to ex-DC9 routes...such is an example of this mechanism in operation.

Figures lie and liars figure, but the proof is in the airplanes and the bottom line is the number of pilots we have, which in this case, is still less than after the merger, and nearly 4,500 pilots less than the combined peak.

Nu