Body scanning, shoe searches, questioning, (Israeli method), baggage scanning etc in the name of flight security sound reasonable.Unfortunately, however, there are downsides to these proposals and actions. What is the impact on the traveling public? Will an additional 5% refuse to fly? 20%? Immediately after 9-11, Airline management correctly projected a severe downturn in traffic and parked many aircraft and reportedly released some 100,000 employees. As "security" becomes more time consuming and intrusive you will have a greater loss in traffic. The question remains how to balance security needs without driving away the customer. GN -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of www.joepries.com Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 6:00 AM To: AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: Re: If you want to down a plane .... hi Geoff, youre 100% right- but- if you put a passenger through a body scanner- one that shows a 3d view of the person and every single inch of him/her is visible- you just eliminated this problem- alot of people (women especially) will have a problem with this but they'll just have to do it- one way is to have the person monitoring in a booth where the pax doesnt see him/her so theres less embarassment- but this will work. then you have the problem of rogue caterers or others who have access to airplanes that can slip something in to the airplane so yeah- you cant stop em all but with the scanner you can do alot- and scan the caterers/cleaners while youre at it for more complete sterility. Unfortunately we've come to this stage- actually we should have come to it long ago.