Security Screening for Airport Employees?

Question

As I wait in line at the security checkpoint, I see all these airport and airline employees who are allowed to go to the front of the line for screening. I realize that they have to get to their jobs and all that, but I do resent the fact that they are allowed to cut in line ahead of everyone else. After all, the rest of us are working too and in all fairness, would like to get through security so that we can reduce the amount of time we spend getting to work. Don't you think that if airline and airport employees had to spend as much time in the security line as the rest of us do that they would figure out how to make these lines shorter?

Answer 1

Cockpit & Cabin Crews are required to report for duty hours prior boarding. Same applies to passenger for check-in processes. Cockpit & Cabin Crews have no exemption with the strict airport security check-in processes by the Airport Officials. They too may face disciplinary or legal action if breach of the security protocol.

Therefore, when we happen to see those Cockpit & Cabin Crews standing in the front line and awaiting for the same security check-in processes. Please understand their additional responsibilities to go on board the aircraft ahead of all others passenger for pre take off protocol. This is to ensure all refueling, stocking, maintained, cabin safety devices and equipments are all in standby mode. Then you may see them standing at respective station to Welcome Passengers on board with their warms smile and attention.

Their task and responsibilities doesn't end till all passengers disembarked the from the aircraft safely at the destination.

Answer 2

For those of us airline employees who work in the airport itself (and not on the airplanes during flight) we go through two extensive background checks before we are even hired. One is done by the airline, the second by the airport thru TSA. So it's not like just anyone can work at the airport. As long as I'm not traveling, I have the ability to bypass security at my airport. Others do it differently and have their own employee checkpoints. It is very important that I am able to get to work in a timely manner so that I can get you to your destination in a timely manner.

Pilots and flight attendants are subject to the same screening as passengers, but since their duty day can last only so long, from the time they get to the airport to the time they land at their last stop, they can't be having to wait for the 150 slow-moving people in front of them to figure out how to take off their shoes and remove their belts before screening. They are the only airline employees who have the right to bump you out of your spot in line.

Answer 3

I have to say that this is a VERY stupid idea...

The longer it takes for employees to get through, the more delays it will cause because they are not where they are supposed to be... HELPING CUSTOMERS.

Doing what you recommend is like saying that president's guards should wait in line with the tourists at the white house... Because it isn't fair to the tourists...

You REALLY need to start thinking about the bigger picture...

Answer 4

I have heard they actually go through stricter security screening. Even though it may not seem that way. So perhaps that part of the reason why they let them cut the line and go togother through security.

Answer 5

Yes... absolutely, positively yes.

To all of those making excuses for why the get the special treatment, I dont think you read the question.  The question is not whether or not they have a tough job, nor is it whether they have to pass a series of rigorous screenings to maintaing their security.  The question represents a concept that makes total sense.  

The concept is simple, if they had to stand in the very lines that all of us resent so much, would they (they meaning some insightful airport security workers) come up with a better, more efficient way of doing things?   To which I say... abso-frickin-lutely.  

People have a way of just accepting things the way they are until those things effect them personally.  By forcing airport security to stand in line like the rest of us, the inconvenience of it all would surely prompt discussions of how to improve the situation.  If you have a problem with that... take a number, get in line.