Bill Emmett wrote:
I can't imagine why a camera in the luggage compartment of a airliner is safer than in the cabin section. Exactly what are they trying to save us from? As of now, every laptop, camera bag, carry on, purse, wallet and even baby diaper bags are x-rayed, hand searched, wiped, and scrutinized by every means available. Packing this equipment in a armored Pelican Case or other method, and storing it into the bilge of the airliner does not give me any further sense of safety. What it does do, is separate the traveler from his most expensive prized possession, cameras, laptops, and other items. It sounds like a airline thieves wondrous dream of well identified, easy targets to steal. I think it's time for the flying public to make statements about this insane practice to their Congressional Representatives, and if that falls on deaf ears, stop flying. On my last trip to New Hampshire, I had to remove my skin tight knee brace, just to have it closely scrutinized for some unknown substance, but I was not asked about my undies. My wife was asked to remove her bra, since there is a metal part sewn into the thing. The laptop ban would really hurt business men, and women, with lost productive time while flying from office to office. I can't image doing a engineering report on a cell phone, with drawings etc. or a professional photographer, who does post processing while flying from one assignment to another. I have watched an enormous amount of professionally packed freight go onboard these airliners, why aren't these cartons not scrutinized, and responsible parties standing by as these cartons placed onboard? Why aren't these freight cartons opened and rummaged through by the TSA.
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The laptop ban would really hurt business men, and women, with lost productive time while flying from office to office.
This could empty the "business class" seating on aircraft.