Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is now allowing passengers to carry small scissors and tools with you! I think this is a great risk for the airport and air transport security!!!! What if someone clipping his toe nail accidentally cuts the throat of the pilot?! I can`t even think about the consequences of this…
Before those tools were banned “for our safety“… What changed? Nothing… Anyway… There are the new rules in place:
— More additional screenings of passengers and their bags using a variety of methods selected at random
— Scissors with a cutting edge of four inches or less and tools such as screwdrivers, wrenches and pliers smaller than seven inches will be permitted on board. Regulations still ongoing
— Passengers will continue to walk through a metal detector and have their carry-on and checked baggage screened. These measures may now include a brief additional search of their person or their property.
— Examples of this additional screening include: explosive screening of shoes, hand-wanding of passengers, enhanced pat down searches and inspections of carry-on bags. These searches will be generated at random and will take only about a minute to complete.
— Scissors longer than four inches and tools such as crowbars, drills, hammers, and saws will continue to be prohibited from carry-on bags.
— Lighters will continue to be banned from the cabin of aircraft and in checked baggage.