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Airline unions: “Keep weapons off our planes”
30 January 2006
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US cabin crew and ground staff unions are calling on their colleagues worldwide to back them in a day of action today against new rules that allow dangerous items back onto aircraft.
A relaxation of the security rules brought in after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 will now allow passengers to take items such as screwdrivers and some scissors on board planes. Unions are reacting with disbelief, pointing out that as the 9/11 atrocities showed, tools can be used as deadly weapons in a terrorist’s hands.
The ITF has written to the US Secretary of Homeland Security to ask him to urgently reconsider, and is asking its member unions to do the same.
Ingo Marowsky, Secretary of the ITF’s Civil Aviation Section, commented: “It doesn’t take much imagination to see how handtools could be used as weapons, but it takes a lot to understand why any passenger would need to take them onboard in the first place. People have got used to the idea that some things just have no place in the cabin, and are happy to leave them in their luggage. Why change that?”
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