Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Airport security
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 18:37:24 -0400

At 01:31 PM 10/4/01 -0700, Herbert & Lee Kanner wrote:
>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.

Hmm.  This is not the case at the airports I use.  Think about it:  when
you go into an airport, you go through a security checkpoint which leads to
a gate servicing MANY airlines.  Who picks which airline would have the
responsibility?  (In the Roanoke (VA) airport, there is ONE security
checkpoint and nine airlines using the gates beyond the checkpoint.)  

I cannot speak to SFX.  I last used it in 1976.

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
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