Have a safe and Happy New Year!

2010 has been a year of promise and change. This blog-site was created for the express purpose of exposing and highlighting the managerial failings of CAS. Their outright disregard for fairness and lack of concern for the employees of CAS will not end until they are gone. We will continue to make the lack of adequate staffing known to TSA. We will continue to unmask the unfair promotion processes and favoritism that runs rampant. We will continue to listen, hear your complaints and post them.

Thanks to all those who have helped to make this effort a success. We will not stop until we achieve our goals.

May our future be full of hope and promise.

"Patriot Pilot" Reveals His Identity

The now famous pilot has revealed his identity. He is American Airlines pilot Chris Liu. He revealed this on Monday on Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN. He also responded to some of the claims that SFO had that we reported on the other day.

At this point it's a back and forth between Liu and TSA in which he claims security is lacking and TSA claims otherwise. It will be interesting how this story continues to develop.

Another Bad Day for CAS in New York

Front page news at the New York Post.

http://www.nypost.com

See below "Star Shot in Harlem"

and above "Blind fire hero to the rescue"

No heroes in this story, though.


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/he_on_zzzz_job_tnpkD6mCpP27bUcEu3Tn4K

TSA- The Best Choice of the available options

We all know that it's not perfect, but I would much rather expend energy trying to fix what is wrong at TSA versus trying to fix what is wrong at CAS. I would rather tackle the 800 pound gorilla and go straight to the source of all these security missteps and over reactions. Let's be instrumental pushing for procedural changes within TSA! Let's meet this challenge head on by offering sensible changes and solutions based on our own years of experience. Let's use our method of "Engage" to get things changed. Someone, somewhere should finally see that this is a valuable resource that should be used. We will keep searching until we find that someone!

The problems at TSA are numerous, too numerous to list. But, if we care at all about what we are doing, or what we are suppose to be doing let's fight to make things better. TSA needs to start listening to those in the trenches who want to make things better. Don't let our years of experience count for nothing! We are here to help, use us.

SFO Responds to Airline Pilot Posting Video to Youtube

In a report posted to CNN.com on Saturday, SFO responded to the controversy surrounding the airline pilot allegedly posting SSI (Sensitive Security Information) that we reported on earlier this week. SFO stated, "The video shows a door with a card swipe and suggests that access is gained to the airfield area through this door. In fact, the door shown in the video provides access only to an employee lunchroom." The statement from SFO goes on to further state that, "San Francisco International Airport is proud to both an innovator and a trendsetter in aviation security. SFO meets, and in many cases, exceeds every federal security requirement."

That is indeed true about exceeding "every federal security requirement." Before TSA eliminated the hand wand procedure, do we remember all of those unnecessary steps that Covenant Aviation Security required of us? Not to mention a myriad of other things that we're required to do by CAS that is neither good security or good use of manpower.

We shall see what comes of this controversy surrounding this airline pilot. Hopefully he will prevail in the end as it will be a sad day indeed when citizens of this great country are unable to speak and point out the failings of the government. And NO, TSA, he was NOT revealing any SSI! That is just a pure bull crap reason so as to shut him up!

It's time for all of us to speak up. Some may not agree with many of the points we make on this blog. In fact, even some of us contributors don't always agree with one another. But we're all speaking up and most importantly allowing our brains and common sense to come to the surface.

That is one of the inherent things wrong with bureaucracies such as TSA and CAS. Not only is thinking not encouraged, it is outright discouraged. Even though the federal government essentially wasted $45 million on the "Checkpoint Evolution" program, the idea of being proactive and "thinking outside the box" were worthwhile concepts in terms of improving security at the airports. Unfortunately, as many of us predicted, it was never really implemented. The main reason for that is those bureaucrats just couldn't buy in to it. If they did, there wouldn't be as much need for their jobs.

Let's all keep fighting the good fight, and don't be afraid to call out people in positions of power for their lack of forward thinking with security.