:Q $ Changes Everything :Q
Continental Air spokesperson--"We need this"
Like a fn hole in the head! Is it just me or does no one see the inherent danger in this. In a nutshell, if you stay at one of these hotels, you bypass the airport check-in completely. You check your bags in the friggin lobby, or out of your room. It is "transported by private secure courier" to your airline at the airport.
Private secure courier? Who are they kidding?
With so many different people outside of the "secure airport area" having access to bags, the odds of some tampering raises astronomically. Not to mention the opprotunity for organized theft, lost bags, and misplaced itineraries.
The most basic tenet of airline security, the first line of defense so to speak, IS TO MATCH A FACE/ID TO EVERY BAG. This system does not do this. You have mutiple hotel guests loading mutiple bags that will be going to mutiple airlines on different ends of the airport. It creates confusion and subsequently complacency, a terrorists best weapon. Uh, "Lockerbie-Flight 103" anyone? A bomb was hidden in a radio and checked on board-AND NO ONE VERIFIED WHO IT BELONGED TO. --BOOM--
I work at Orlando Intl and it pisses me off that we get picked for this potential boondoggle. I cant believe, refuse to believe these idiots for the airlines have this "planned out"
It is greed pure and simple. If we advertise an "easy way to fly, and avoid all those nasty lines" people will fly with us...
GOD help us, for we art stupid.
Continental Air spokesperson--"We need this"
Like a fn hole in the head! Is it just me or does no one see the inherent danger in this. In a nutshell, if you stay at one of these hotels, you bypass the airport check-in completely. You check your bags in the friggin lobby, or out of your room. It is "transported by private secure courier" to your airline at the airport.
Private secure courier? Who are they kidding?
With so many different people outside of the "secure airport area" having access to bags, the odds of some tampering raises astronomically. Not to mention the opprotunity for organized theft, lost bags, and misplaced itineraries.
The most basic tenet of airline security, the first line of defense so to speak, IS TO MATCH A FACE/ID TO EVERY BAG. This system does not do this. You have mutiple hotel guests loading mutiple bags that will be going to mutiple airlines on different ends of the airport. It creates confusion and subsequently complacency, a terrorists best weapon. Uh, "Lockerbie-Flight 103" anyone? A bomb was hidden in a radio and checked on board-AND NO ONE VERIFIED WHO IT BELONGED TO. --BOOM--
I work at Orlando Intl and it pisses me off that we get picked for this potential boondoggle. I cant believe, refuse to believe these idiots for the airlines have this "planned out"
It is greed pure and simple. If we advertise an "easy way to fly, and avoid all those nasty lines" people will fly with us...
GOD help us, for we art stupid.