Safe Flying.


Want to take flight? Then do not take anything, of course for security reasons.

How many times you must have cursed yourself, if not your wife for forgetting to carry something while traveling. Notably toothpaste, shaving cream, or an after-shave lotion, shampoo, sun tan lotion etc. However, not anymore. You will not curse yourself for forgetting them, but you will definitely do if you carry them, particularly while you are taking a flight.

The Civil Aviation Secretary, Mr. Ajay Prasad, said that from Friday, 11 August, 2006, all liquids, including shampoo, beverages, sun tan lotion and toothpaste, would not be allowed to be carried as hand luggage. It is understood by the experts that the main ingredients used in the bid to blow up the aircraft in UK, is liquids and components, which can be disguised in a laptop, camera and a MP3 player.

It seems that the passengers are now deprived of shampooing their hair and get rid of the dandruff, cannot protect their teeth from tartar or whatever; let their skin get tanned under the sky close to the sun, or not even allowed to enjoy the pesticide filled soft drinks, all for some serious security reasons. This seems to be a plot against some consumer products multi national companies.

This again will eat away the revenue of the airline companies. The luggage that is allowed to be carried by a passenger will come down drastically, as cosmetics and liquids form the major part of the luggage, particularly when one is traveling with his wife. Hence, the extra fare for the luggage doesn’t arise. This will discourage the female passengers and their preference not to take to flights will further add to the diminishing incomes of the airliners. Flight attendants and air hosts will also find it difficult to keep up their faces light up in the absence of make up kits. This will dampen the spirits of the male passengers and they prefer to travel by trains sipping the unexplainable savor of railway coffee, putting their life to highest level of insecurity. All this for security reasons.

This is the era of human bombs. Why not ban humans from traveling in flights rather banning toothpaste and a shampoo. Then the inevitable question that needs to be answered. ‘Will these flights need something like these to blow it up?’ Rather make it air borne for a little more time this saves lot of toothpaste and shampoo.