U.S. Airways Questions Students Before Flight

[TotallyOz]

Should this have happened?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/25/us-airways-questions-stud_n_1113471.html?ref=travel

[marcanthony]

Should this have happened?

not enough information provided in the article to know. if there some kind of legitimate security risk, then yes. if it was strictly profiling, then no. the timing is interesting. they passed through TSA security and the pilot had them removed....

[Guest hitoallusa]

Many they had the same to a know terrorist? It's better to be safe rather than to be sorry later. A little bit of incontinence I am willing to take.

[lookin]

A little bit of incontinence I am willing to take.

Same here.

[Guest hitoallusa]

Inconvenience I meant. I hate when the auto typo corrector put in a wrong word. Lookin where do you find these pictures? You are just amazing.

[MsGuy]

Lookin where do you find these pictures? You are just amazing.

Yes he is.

[BiBottomBoy]

Eh, American students get questioned when they go to other countries as well. Try being 20 and flying to or from South America - you'll get all kinds of drug questions/searches.

Try being an attractive female student flying to the UK. You'll get asked if you are an escort (this has happened to many of my female friends.)

Try being a young flayboyant gay student flying to France, you'll get asked if you have HIV and are just trying to use your student visa to get free HIV medication.

Young people get treated with suspicion by all countries.

[Guest hitoallusa]

I am not a young guy but I got searched once in Japan. On another occasion I had a bottle of lube in my carry on and a TSA agent gave me a very disapproving look and carry the bottle away from me as if it were biohazard waste. Then questioned about another TSA what my occupation is and etc.. It was kind of embarrassing.

Eh, American students get questioned when they go to other countries as well. Try being 20 and flying to or from South America - you'll get all kinds of drug questions/searches.

Try being an attractive female student flying to the UK. You'll get asked if you are an escort (this has happened to many of my female friends.)

Try being a young flayboyant gay student flying to France, you'll get asked if you have HIV and are just trying to use your student visa to get free HIV medication.

Young people get treated with suspicion by all countries.

[BiBottomBoy]

Yeah, this happens to people of all ages and races so it's not really fair to scream "racism" if it happens to Arab kids. Because, it happens to white kids, black kids and asian kids as well.

If you cross a border you might get check out. That's life.