o/t for anyone flying today, terrorist alert

[BUTTERBALL]

I'm flying on holiday next weekend, so I hope all the disruption and has died down and the rules on hand luggage relaxed. They are saying you can't take anything like books or newspapers or mp3 players in hand luggage, how boring will that be!

 

[Mr Blobby]

From the BBC site

<<Courteney Dane, who travelling back to Australia, said: "I'm worried about the cost and the fact I've got a 24 hour flight with nothing to read. I'm not really worried about the security, it's just a nuisance." >>


Some people shouldnt be allowed to travel as they are toooooo f***ing stupid!

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Not sure why books are not aloud on?

Fire, maybe?

 

[gts big bruv]

I'm off to Prague in 20 minutes on a stag do flying from Gatwick. I imagine we'll be held up for quite some time.

Flying back to UK from Brno in Czech later today i hope , been told i canot carry any electronic hand luggage ,no lap top no Mp3 not even a glasses case so every thing will have to go in the suitcase it will be interesting to see if the mobile phone is still there when i get home

 

[aftershavedave]

Flying back to UK from Brno in Czech later today i hope , been told i canot carry any electronic hand luggage ,no lap top no Mp3 not even a glasses case so every thing will have to go in the suitcase it will be interesting to see if the mobile phone is still there when i get home

be surprised if your flight takes place...all incoming planes not already in the air are banned from uk airspace apparently...

 

[gts big bruv]

be surprised if your flight takes place...all incoming planes not already in the air are banned from uk airspace apparently...

Looks like a weekend in Brno , missed tuesdays game will poss miss saturdays ! might be a spare ticket for sale

 

[DIFFBROOK]

fotunately as it now seems, we got back yesterday.

However the passport saga gets interesting as a lady in the British high comission in Austria said I would have to get to Vienna to pick up a temporary passport to be let back into the country ( i would have to fax them my birth certificate _ HOW?) If this had been 1 day earlier and some kind soul had not handed my passport in, I have no idea how I would have got back into the country

Strangely, I left Canada a few weeks back and obvioulsy I had to show my passport as I left the country. Although I landed in Heathrow, I had a final destination of Manchester.

Now, I didn't have to show my passport at Heathrow, as I hadn't left airside and because I had an internal flight to Manchester when I arrived there I didn't need to show it there either. Presumably the authorities assumed that I was just travelling internally.

But really, this seems to be a bit of a loophole or at least lax. I could have been anybody and presumably could have done it from any country.

 

[Mr Blobby]

Not sure why books are not aloud on?

Fire, maybe?

Only essentials allowed, passport, flight tickets and medication only.

I am waiting for the PC brigade to complain of the harassment of the Muslim community again, they need to weed out these fundamentalist. If life in the UK is so bad and they feel so discriminated against go elsewhere and leave us all alone including the peaceful majority of Muslim people who live in harmony in most UK cities. All this will do is stir up more anti Muslim feeling, not sure what it achieves really.

I am against what Israel is doing, but wouldn't kill innocent people to try and prove some sick point.

I do disspare at times.

 

[Yoda]

One woman on BBC Breakfast this morning:

If all hand luggage is going in the hold, they're still getting the bomb on the plane.

What are they going to detonate it with?

 

[Ccider]

One woman on BBC Breakfast this morning:



What are they going to detonate it with?

tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock

 

[Barrel of Fun]

tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock

I think that might be picked up in the x-ray machine.

Or Man of Harvey's talking dog would hear it and tell the police.

 

[Rougvie]

Not sure how believable this is, but I have just been out on the ramp at Gatwick working on an aircraft and was told by a collegue that the suspects planned to take some sort of Nitro Glicerence substance in Diet Coke bottles.

 

[Yoda]

I think that might be picked up in the x-ray machine.

Or Man of Harvey's talking dog would hear it and tell the police.

And too unreliable. Delays, cancellations, etc...

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

i must say that i belive we MUST bring back capital punishment for c*nts like this - how can sending them to jail do a fucing thing.

f***ing shoot the c*nts starting from their knees working up around the private area, gradually blowing their fingers off, followed by their arms, then cut their ears off and feed it to them.....................then finish 'em off.

Better hope they picked up the right people then.

 

[dwayne]

Well presumably WHsmiths will be open so after youve checked your baggage in and had your security checks you can get your mags/papers there!?!

 

[Skint Gull]

I am against what Israel is doing, but wouldn't kill innocent people to try and prove some sick point.

This isn't directly to do with Israel, its been monitored for months apparently

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Not sure how believable this is, but I have just been out on the ramp at Gatwick working on an aircraft and was told by a collegue that they planned to take some sort of Nitro Glicerence substance in Diet Coke bottles.

Blimey, makes you think - how many people take on drinks?

 

[Man of Harveys]

Seriously, why is it always planes? Why not, say, the channel tunnel? I guess the point of terrorism is that it's irrational and thereby terrorises people but to pick a means which already has fairly tight security seems odd. Then again, blowing up innocent people lacks a certain rationale too.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

If it is something they were planning that is not easily detectable then we have a long-term problem that is not going to go away.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Tunnels do not provide the publicity shots - see the diffference between the explosions in the underground and on the bus last July.