Hubbub in the skies and on the ground today as U.S. and British authorities swept planes for "suspicious devices." Story in the NYT.
I'll note only this excerpt, dealing with a matter dear to my heart, as I've written before about TSA abuses and this country's security puffery:
The alert in Britain came just two days after the country’s transport minister said he would listen sympathetically to demands from airlines that security measures for passengers at British airports be eased.
That followed a speech by Martin Broughton, the chairman of British Airways, who criticized the United States for “redundant” checks like screening passengers’ shoes and requiring laptops to be removed from carry-on bags at checkpoints.
Mr. Broughton said there was no need to “kowtow to the Americans every time they want something done.”
