Originally Posted by tsquared030

Horse Gets Away!

TSA orders ALL barn doors closed.

Originally Posted by ewrbasedpilot

We were notified of this new "security directive" on our release today. So now we're "holding the passengers hostage" at the govt's direction, and then the passengers can sue us. Great, really great. I guess we should essentially throw up a white flag and tell all our "middle eastern friends" that we surrender and that they won. The TSA has become a real "COWARD" office in my opinion. If they're so worried about crap like this idiot, then they need to shut ALL the airlines down and be done with it. But nickel and diming all the passengers to death with STUPID rules is just ridiculous. I asked our dispatcher what we were supposed to do if someone stood up and opened an overhead during the last hour..........his answer? "Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger". Fine.........I guess we'll have security standing by to arrest thirty passengers on each flight as they go to store their computers in the overhead. Also, NO passenger is allowed to have ANYTHING on their laps for the last hour? I guess lap-children are no longer allowed? Yep, brilliant, real brilliant. Our finest brains making idiotic rules to protect who????? Funny thing is though, is that this directive is "not releasable" to the general public. So, being the "stupid" person I am, I asked a simple question to my company: "just how do the passengers know what they can and can't do?" So far, no answer. Pretty sad, isn't it?

Originally Posted by Mem9guy

I don't think that this directive to lock down the pax applies to Domestic...