I await the day all carry on baggage will be a thing of the past and everything will be checked. In order to enter the “sterile” zone within an airport you must undergo a strip and cavity search thereafter you will don an orange jumpsuit and paper socks. When you board the plane and take your seats instead of buckling your seat-belt you’ll be shackled securely to the floor, for your own protection of course. Finally the meal and drinks you were hoping would tide you over on your long flight will be served to you in plastic sippy cups. All along you tell yourself it’s a luxury and that it’s ok because you’re paying for the privilege to fly.
The security debate is bad for the people… it plays right into the hands of airlines looking to up their bottom line. Following the Christmas bombing attempt you saw several airlines cut the # of bags you could take as carry on hiding it behind the security threat scare tactic.
Ideally if you want to stop planes being used as mediums for terror I suggest rebuilding the planes themselves, attempting to defeat every method of bringing explosives on board is impossible. Building a better plane able to withstand an explosive blast is a much better idea. The screening prevents large obvious explosives from getting aboard, so build a plane that can handle a small scale explosion. Instead of one massive cabin for passengers individually separate out the classes between blast proof bulkheads that maintain the pressurization if another section fails. Think A-10 the sky bus version…
Just my ramblings tho.. sorry
