aardwolfe,

So your idea is to do away with pre board security because your too impatient to wait longer for better screening?

You want 9 Suzy Q flight attendants to be packing a can of mace to repel 9 armed highjackers? Hmmmm..

Lets be serious for a minute. Better screening before getting on a plane is a start to better on board security.

You keep praising El AL. Well I will tell you something. One U.S. based airline flies more flights in 1 day that El Al flys in a month. Its much easier to sort your security out with screw all flights to deal with. Further to that the passengers boarding El Al are harrased by security before they get on like nothing you have ever seen. They must show up for a flight 4 hrs before, they are routinely harrased by the secret police. Their backgrounds are probed like a FBI security check. Their baggage is often ripped apart 2-3 times at different spot checks and bomb x-ray sniffed. Their pictures are put through interpol as they walk into the airport terminal and this is all before they even check their bags in. Strip searches are common at the x-ray machines. Etc..Etc..Etc..

And you are complaining about a 40 min delay at the x-ray machine. LMAO

I think you have been driving the Deerfoot trail too much bud, its making you irrational.
Nobody is making you take a plane to get to your destination.
Flying is not a god given right or part of any constitution.

I think you should start driving more.

Aviation security has a long way to go. The system is full of security holes. There are so many ways to bring down a plane (even today) the public isn't even aware of, its scary.

After every passenger is checked and there are no knives, guns or knitting needles on a plane and 10 armed secret service agents on board Delta airlines employee #xxxxx named Mohammad whos 3rd cousin is a Bin Laden follower pays him to put this small package in the cargo hold no questions asked.

No, employees are not checked!!!! STILL

You pays your money you takes your chances.

After all of that, you are still a million times more likely to be killed in your car on the way to your flight.

Mike