April 23, 2013 – In the face of a huge backlash
from Flight Attendants, nearly every other
stakeholder in aviation and the public, the
Transportation Security Administration on Monday
postponed its
plan to
allow knives on US flights starting
Thursday, April 25. But the 90,000 member Flight
Attendants Union Coalition, which has opposed
the TSA's ill advised plan from the start,
remains resolute: No Knives on Planes Ever
Again.
The United States has banned all knives from
commercial flights since the September 11, 2001,
attacks for good reason, knives were the
terrorists' weapons of choice in bringing down
four jetliners and murdering thousands of
Americans.
All knives should be banned from planes
permanently. If the TSA wishes to explore a
drastic departure from this logical, 11-year-old
policy, it must comply with the rule-making
requirements that it should have observed when
it first announced its decision to allow knives
on planes on March 5.
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