Stephen J. Phillips
Lecturer (Aviation)
School of Engineering and Mathematics
Edith Cowan University
Mt Lawley
PERTH 6050
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Ph 08 9370 6680
From: Riddely_at_aol.com, on 9/16/98 11:31 PM:
Kerry,
I guess by' profiling' I meant something akin to the yellow/red carding of pax
some carriers are already doing; somehow keeping track of a troublesome
passenger and "flagging" them on future flights.
I couldn't agree more about the alcohol...but, as someone mentioned in an
earlier posting, passengers have become very insistent, and in some cases
militant, about what they consider to be their "rights" as consumers, and i
think banning alcohol will actually be much harder to do than was banning
smoking on flights. With cigarettes you have a visible hazard to others, ie ,
the smoke (tho many ardent pro-smoking advocates insist that is not a hazard
at all)... with drinking, you run into those who say that it affects no one
but the drinker...Clearly, as in Renee's case and others, this is not so.
As for security guards on flights, I would hate to think we had come to that,
but alas I fear you may be right, and it may not be all that far off.
Pam