Good luck enforcing this. How do they know where I am traveling when i walk through kcm. Maybe I'm on my way to work

 

Maybe, but is it worth losing KCM if you ever got caught? Plus you're hurting it for everyone who plays by the rules.

 

Has a specific date for this new policy going into effect been given yet?

 

Yes, it's today, May 16, 2016.

 

Sucks for us who commute to Canada!! You'd think that at least our two countries could work this out! After all, TSA has dropped the post-9/11 cockpit jumpseat ban years ago...just Company procedures, or lack thereof that's keeping us out of the j/s now. If I'm safe in TSA's eyes to occupy the j/s to Canada, why in the world would it be unsafe for me to KCM my way into the back?? Typical gov't "one hand doesn't know what the other is doing" bureaucratic insanity! I will be voicing my concern/complaint, but Jeh probably won't G.A.S!

 

Effective Tuesday, May 17th, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will implement new changes to the Known Crewmember (KCM) program for crew members traveling to international destination on personal travel. The TSA policy changes is as follows:

Crew members traveling as a passenger for personal travel from a U.S. location to an international location, must be screened as a passenger through the passenger screening checkpoint prior to entering into the airport sterile area. Crew members are no longer allowed to use the KCM access point for personal travel from the U.S. to an international location.
Notice: Crew members traveling from the U.S. to international locations on company business may continue to use the KCM access points. Company business includes; but is not limited to, the following:
Flight Operations
Training
Crew Positioning
Dead Heading
Other Company Business

http://www.knowncrewmember.org/Pages/default.aspx

 

Tuesday 5/17/2016

 

Optics. Doesn't matter if we're "trusted", we didn't get "screened".

We would not appreciate it if certain other countries waived agreed-upon international screening for some of their citizens traveling here based on whatever local standards they wanted...like those who have good attendance records at mosque for example. Good for goose...