ROTFL

BTW… I agree.

For people looking for friend on airplane bus or train try talking. If people dont talk to you back, making you “Mr. Security” wont help neither. Or are you wanting to pat down the ladies (or gentlemen?!). Try Tuttuki Bako Finger Game Box if you are lonely on the plane.

This idea is BRILLIANT. Everything that you say is entirely correct. It is the type of idea that has you hitting your head and saying why didn’t I think of that. One thing that occurred to me is that these procedures could easily be superimposed over virtually every other form of transportation or vulnerability very quickly (train travel, bus stations, … theater, entrance to DisneyWorld).

By the way, I wholly disagree with points 1 and 3. This is about security which is a real problem in our society, and not about improving your social life. Moreover, I don’t know what these guys are speaking about – riding in an airplane and being in New York are already the two easiest ways on the planet to meet women.

Three parties have a legal accountability. The airport, the airline, and the gvt institution(s) enforcing security/visa/customs.

Adding a fourth layer, the passenger, to substitute for one or more of the others, is rather naiive.

But it gives me a strange sense of pleasure to hear about the airport delays imposed on Martin Varsavsky. And that he realizes what living in the dark can mean (microblog): Fonera users have suffered this way since they purchased their equipment.

Stop reading books on your paid-for-holidays and romances. Start solving service problems that your customers are facing. You dont deserve a holiday until your customers are satisfied. That’s how it works around here anyway. Too much party, not enough hard work. I do hope there are NO salaries at the top, and bonuses are only paid on profits and customer satisfaction.

Martin, please reflect on every perception of bad experience/performance that you have in your life and think of how that experience is relevant to your business… and can be translated into “lessons learned”.

Perhaps that approach; a lessons-learned applicable to my business, would be a valuable postscriptum to each blog you write.

I completely disagree with Mr. Wales (#1) and Mr. Navidad (#3). The issue here is security, not socializing. A good security officer should not be influenced by a nice face or a smile.

Regarding your proposal, I do not like it either.
I wouldn’t put mine or my family security in the hands of casual strangers, or people with no background nor experience in the security business. I’m sure you wouldn’t want that either.

In spite of several success stories, the entire coordinated world of aviation safety and official anti terror organizations (Europeans and Americans) failed with this Amsterdam-Detroit terrorist. New measures are in place now, and this is bugging everybody.

In my opinion, and in order to minimize risks, the most efficient way would be adding more check points, more personnel, more cameras, profiling, check everything and keep the guard high. We need to be ahead of the terrorists and think what could be their next step.

People need to understand that once you enter an airport, your privacy is at some risk because of the security measures, but it is done in order to minimize the risk of loosing yours and other people life. The general public must be educated on this too.

Happy new year.

Haim

I understand that a 2nd passenger screening is new to a lot of people, but depending on your departure city, country and destination city, this practice has been standard since last years failed attack in London. The failed attack where the terrorists had liquid explosives.

We may sadly just have to get used to more delays.