If you’re a crew member considering your options for dealing with the state’s aggression against your livelihood (and your physical person), or if you’ve already drawn the line and are wondering what’s next, the material on this site may be very helpful and will be updated constantly to stay relevant and useful. You are welcome and encouraged to send email to contact@fedupflyers.org or call 901.237.6308.
This one slipped past TSA's screeners. He looks pretty dangerous
Read the letter Michael and some coworkers sent to ExpressJet management to see how we pro-actively addressed TSA’s tyrannical policy changes early on when they were first announced. Perhaps it will help you in framing any discussions with your own employer.
If you need immediate legal counsel, contact the Rutherford Institute at 434.978.3888.
We’ve decided to post messages from fellow pilots, flight attendants, and other industry professionals here to give the flying public and everyone else a glimpse into the minds of the hard-working people who deal with TSA’s madness every day. It’s probably safe to say that no one has a better understanding of the truth about what’s happening out there than we collectively do. The public has a right to know and an obligation to become informed as well. Actual checkpoint encounters are posted on the Reports page. Below are some selected comments that have come our way from industry colleagues:
Michael, I am a flight attendant for Delta Airlines. I am very opposed to these new regulations. I absolutely refuse to be subjected to a full scan of my body that is akin to someone seeing me naked. Nor will I let someone pat me down that in any other situation they would be in jail for sexual harassment. We cannot let tsa do what ever they feel is necessary in the name of security. I go through security on a daily basis all over the country and I have seen and heard many instances where TSA is no longer protecting our airways but are only on a power trip. TSA has taken individuals who have less education than I do, given them a background check that is not nearly as invasive as mine was and given them more power than a police officer and the government combined. The entire system is flawed in every way. Their success rate for catching potential threatening objects passing though the scanners is unbelievably low. So low that they virtually catch nothing. Their attitude and harassment of passengers that in no way have displayed any suspicions activity is ridiculous. I feel no safer with TSA in place. And I fly for a living. I frequently tell anyone who will listen that “it’s all a facade.” I am happy to see that some people are doing something to stop these new procedures and am glad that they are considering letting crews be exempt from them. What about the women who don’t know they are pregnant? What about the rape and molestation victims who will be traumatized by the pat down? What about they elderly, veterans, and disabled that have no choice but to be groped? Is this how we repay they men and women who served our country? J.L.
