[Butch Cassidy Slept Here]

What these airline people want is, essentially, for the Air Transport Association (the Congressional lobby group for a few major US-based airlines) to moderate this, and similiar boards.

It's interesting, these clowns are screaming bloody murder because I dare to remind people about the fact that some (no, not all) airline people get their kicks by calling the cops on customers for no good reason. So, what is their response on this board?? They "call the cops!" My citation of that US Code, really, must have messed-up Jetliner. Talk about writing something in a "fit of anger," Jetliner, you took the cake with that last masterpiece! So I suppose both of you can, really, tell me, with a straight face, that one's Constitutional rights are NOT dimished when they set foot in most airports, in the US, or on board most US-registered aircraft.

The reality is that workers in surface mass transit, in large cities, simply don't behave like all too many workers of US-based airlines. But they encounter probably more "bad" people than the airlines. Indeed some of these "bad" people even have (illegal) guns. Still, these workers maintain their cool to a substantially greater degree than their airline counterparts. Why? Because, unlike the airlines, these workers know if they treat a customer badly, there better be a reason a hell of a lot better than a case of a 6-year old child who doesn't want to stop saying "bye-bye plane." True, most workers in mass surface transit are paid better than their airline counterparts. On the other hand it is rare for a mass surface transit worker's bad behavior to be recognized with something bordering on a medal. Even with union protection, there are, at least, SOME consequences for misstreatment of a customer.

You two have, conveniently, overlooked another frequent post of mine: Any airline customer who is physically assaultive; is drunk; refuses to remain seated; or smokes, deserves whatever he or she gets. On the other hand I have NEVER seen any kind of acknowledgement, from the other side, expressing agreement with the idea that an airline employee who witnesses a colleague abusing a customer should report that colleague. Thus you (the supremely "innocent" airline employees) are at the same level as the co-worker of those rogue cops who beat-up suspects and plant drugs. You may not be doing the dirty work yourself. But, you condone it through your own "blue wall" of silence.