Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ---Original Message, in part-------- In US airports, in any event, the security personnel are employed by the airport and not by the airline itself. The airport, as an entity of local government, would probably be shielded by sovereign immunity from a claim for damages. Marc Not true, if many news reports are to be believe. They all say that the airlines contract security to the security firm making the lowest bid. Also, some years ago, I had to sue Mexicana airlines, which offered me $15 as compensation for the $50 Swiss Army Knife that they confiscated and lost (or stole). In the course of doing this, I phoned the security department of the San Francisco Airport and was told that not only was it an airline security crew, but that Mexicana had subcontracted the services of a Pan Am crew for that flight. Herb - -- Herbert Kanner kanner@acm.org 650-326-8204 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html