»»Flight attendants protest against relaxing security restriction
Flight attendants protested at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, after Transportation Security Agency lifted the bans over the items allowed on planes.
After the relaxing of federal security restrictions, passengers are allowed to bring previously forbidden items - such as screwdrivers and pliers smaller than 6 inches and scissors with blades smaller than 4 inches, aboard planes
Flight attendants gathered signatures from passengers for a petition asking Congress to reinstate the bans. Similar protests are expected in many more airports accross the USA.
However TSA spokesman Chris White explained:
“…the bans were lifted so the agency could refocus attention on explosives, which the agency considers the current top threat to aviation…”
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