In reply to:
Kevin: My employer proscribes use of personal aircraft for business-related travel.
Gordon: Kevin, you should come and work for me. I require it!
Gordon, I am in Kevin’s boat: No personal flying for business. Do you have a need for a banker?
Marty
So, do you have a pressing need for a molecular immunologist? I’m not likely as smart as physicists like Roger, but on the other hand I don’t try to approximate everything as a sphere.
Does it pay well enough to finance this certain expensive recreational obsession I have (flying, I mean)?
“Profiling” when done professionally/intelligently, isn’t so much about appearance and where you’re from. It’s about previous patterns of travel and ticket purchases, multiple trips to particular destinations, habit patterns regarding luggage, and numerous other criteria I’m sure I don’t know about and should be kept quiet anyway. Personally, I don’t have any problem with that type of profiling being used to select PAX for security screens, although I’m sure random selections will continue to occur on top of that in any case.
We have had “increased security” at SQL and PAO in the form of perimeter fences and code-activated gates. I believe avionics thefts have been considerably reduced (a good thing), and there are fewer people milling about on the ramp not keeping their kids under close supervision (also a good thing). I’m all for it.