In your message regarding Re: Educated Baggage & Passenger screeners? = dated Mon, 31 Dec 2001 05:49:48 -0800, Addison Schonland said that ... >AS- This kind of what AA's security people did when denying Reid his = flight but >AS- then they were over ruled by French security at Paris the next day = to enable >AS- him to fly. >AS- The airline CANNOT be overruled by any airport security at all. = Airport security or officials can of their own decision refuse to allow a = passenger to board an aircraft, there is no way in a month of Sundays they can tell = an airline to carry someone the airline has decided is a risk. NO ONE can = over rule the Captain. Reid fly on that flight because AA accepted him. -- Dave Hedges LHR(T2) www.uk-air.net - Information for the UK air traveller