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The real travesty here is that "General Aviation" flights (private aircraft) face no such TSA screening as we see in "Commercial Aviation" flight terminals.

So anyone who has the money to charter a private jet is also able to carry whatever they want onto an aircraft, which illustrates the double standard inherent in most tyrannical systems.



have no fear - our theater is 100% reactionary. when an attack like this is carried out then we'll put in onerous theater procedures to slow things down there as well.

Then... we'll wait for an attack on sea vessels. After people die that way, we'll put more security theater there, without ever reducing or removing the decade+ old theater imposed in other areas.


There already have been such attacks...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/us/19crash.html?_r=0


Why would it be a "travesty" than they have, whether through inattention or lobbying or whatever, managed to exempt a bunch of people from their idiocy?


Onto any aircraft?


My experience is that many Private Aircraft terminals, such as private jets, private helicopters, etc, don't screen passengers, or their luggage, the way the public is searched in "Commercial Aircraft" pre-flight screening.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/private-...

http://www.generalaviationnews.com/2011/01/is-ga-a-menace/

The above links discuss the matter further.


This is correct. An exec at a large firm mentioned (who was speaking at a recruiting event) this lack of screening proudly as a "great perk" of flying on the corporate jet between their offices.


But do they board from the same place? I don't see a whole lot of private planes attached to commercial aircraft terminals.


"Private" is kind of a key word there.




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