This AIT screening is BULLSCHEIZE! This is total crap, and yours truly will have NOTHING to do with it!
[The difference between me and you: I have a union, known as ALPA [
www.alpa.org] behind me.]
I'm not going through that machine ever. I flew through Memphis airport last Monday en route to Fort Lauderdale. Typically my ID gains me instant access to the front of the line, and this time was no different. Instead of the AIT I went through the regular metal detector.
Folks...this is RIDICULOUS! I stood there, placing my Mac laptop in sleeve into the gray plastic tray, while some woman about 80 years old stood in the imaging machine with her arms raised like a crook on COPS!
-What idiot came up with this silliness?
I could make a political statement right now, but I won't because the stupid actions of the TSA are so far out of bounds that it transcends politics. This new AIT screening system is something that I will refuse, even as a crewmember in uniform. ALPA is right behind me. If I refuse the AIT, and wind up missing my scheduled flight, then my airline CANNOT fire me, due to my union contract. That is the beauty of a union- it forces employers to treat you right, and removes their ability to fire you for stupid reasons.
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