I think I know him, was he selling volcano insurance ? He said we where due one sometime

Surely a gigolo

Is there any evidence that “stricter security” really means more safety. I doubt it.

Is there any evidence that “no security” means no safety? I’d say so.

Kevin (good name by the way) – airport security prevents potential threats – the fact that there have been no major air attacks in the last number of years shows that it works. This does not mean potential attackers / terrorists have gone away.

1981 apparently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aer_Lingus_Flight_164

Hi Kevin, correlation does not imply causality. The lack of terrorist attacks may not be down to our security measures. Perhaps no terrorist group has any interest in hijacking an Irish plane or targeting an Irish airport. In that case, all the extra security is completely redundant and only serves to make air travel less accessible and more expensive.

Kevin there are several high profile “target” airlines out there known to the primary terrorist groups. They are American Airlines, United Airlines, British Airways, Lufthansa and Delta. ALL of these airlines operate into and out of Ireland. If there was a weakness in Dublin in sure the terrorists would use it to the best of their ability!!!!

Soft targets what a great opportunity

If that’s so, why haven’t there been any security breaches to date? Lets not kid ourselves, we don’t have an especially stringent security system in place in our airports.

see previous comment.. this is a spurious argument… The world is a small place and though we aren’t high profile.. we still are at risk.. to think otherwise is just naive
Also in reply to ur comment- security agains contraband is simply not enough..

I should clarify that by ‘to date’ I mean since 9/11.

You say we’re at risk, but there’s been no attack or security breach that would support your contention. What evidence do you have to support that argument?

If we were to relax security to make flying easier and less stressful we’d only be allowed to fly in Irish airspace! Can you imagine flights from “sher it’ll be grand” airport being allowed anywhere near London, New York, or anywhere else that is already a specified terrorist target?

Eh yeah ok…..

If Irish airports were the only airports to not increase security measures, would potential terrorist not then use them? As airports by there very nature are ports to the rest of the world, all need to have the same standard, as best as possible, of security measures.

We don’t have the same standards as the US. It’s also a false argument to say that the alternative to the current level of security is none at all. There will always be a level of security present to prevent people smuggling contraband or dangerous items aboard.

Actually Kevin, as flight crew I can say, YES WE ARE at risk!

Eh….Lockerbie?! Or have you only just arrived on Earth?

Kevin is right it’s complete theater. Since 9/11 no group of passengers is going to allow what happened then to happen again. Also keep in mind that those attackers had no bombs or guns or 200ml bottles of shampoo. You can do far more harm to someone with a pen (allowed, for now) as you can with a nail clippers (not allowed).

As I said already and my reason for holding the view that heightened security measures are an evil necessity, is in the end it is impossible to prove a negative. Your view that because ‘its never happened yet means it won’t happen’ totally always overlooks the fact ‘there is always a first time’. Who in their right mind would have thought 9/11 was a possibility… until it happened?
Also let me make another point.. a chain is a strong as its weakest link… the security measures in airports across the western world are a chain, of which our airports are link… a chain we cannot get out off.. due to our geographical proximity to a nation, which has a long heritage of making enemies