The day I give up flying forever.

[MiltonLeBerle]

What are the searches at the security checkpoints going to be like when AlQeada threatens to smuggle plastic explosives on board an airplane by molding it into the shape of a butt-plug and putting it up their ass...?

[Runesong]

1. Err, kind of like being a peace activist

and trying to board a plane.

[DarkPhenyx]

2. damnit!

I hurt myself laughing at this. Stop it!

[leftofthedial]

3. much more fun than the removing the shoe thing

This might bring travelers back to the airline industry!

[Newsjock]

4. I've already given up

And now there's today's news that airport security will now be randomly stopping passengers and "asking them questions" about where they're going, why, and for how long.

As an American citizen, I refuse to "show my papers" to travel within the United States.

[Paranoid_Portlander]

7. Do you have a link.

I'm certain it's true, but I'd like more details, please. Beware of mind games during interrogations. Examples would include asking the same question repeatedly in different formats to see if you change your answer. Also staring in silence at you after you have already answered a question, in order to intimidate you into a different answer, or coax more info out of you. (By "you" I mean anyone.)

[Jacobin]

5. Not to worry

Interesting article in the USAToday about CEO's all flying in company private jets for all their travel including personal travel.

If you aren't a CEO or can't afford a private jet for your travels, who cares what discomfort you encounter while traveling by air.


/sarcasm

[Mari333]

6. I used to fly overseas

I am boycotting the airlines as long as the TSA treats people like criminals with their goddamned blacklists.