Re: [the-beautiful-women] Flying

September 12, 2001

> on

>the other hand when I fly with the children I always weight myself down

>with a load of toys for them and they have *never* taken them out of the

>bag (even on our flights to Oz) there are far more interesting things to

>do on a plane than play with toys apparently!

We do this too - and similarly they are rarely removed. At least

Steffi has her own pull-a-long suitcase/backpack so I never weigh myself

down (she even gets to carry her own change of clothes and water

bottle!).

Interesting to hear about the new procedures. I've been lurking on

rec.travel.air for a few weeks now and as you can imagine the group's

traffic has gone wild the past couple of days. There is a lot of

discussion about carry-on luggage today (and the US custom of allowing

anyone to go to the gate, not just departing passengers). Most people

were adamant they wouldn't allow their $3000 laptop with confidential

company data be checked in (and given some of their stories over the

weeks about missing/damaged luggage, I'm not surprised).

They are also speculating that the knives used by the hijackers were

made of ceramic or fibreglass to avoid detection by the security

barriers, although you'd hope that a good patting-down would find these.

--

Sue

September 12, 2001

Sue Woollett wrote:

> They are also speculating that the knives used by the hijackers were

> made of ceramic or fibreglass to avoid detection by the security

> barriers, although you'd hope that a good patting-down would find these.

But they only pat you down if you bleep the machine - which wouldn't happen

with ceramic - also they might not show up on an x ray.

V

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