Security Risk when flying BA business class?

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I have been travelling from Manchester-Heathrow and Heathrow-Manchester with BA a fair bit with work recently and observed the following:

In the business class lounges that you enter after you have been through the metal detector and bag scanner there are glass tumblers, glass bottles and metal cutlery available for use. Surely this represents a security risk as you do not pass through a metal detector again prior to getting on the flight. You could easily slip a bottle or knife into your bag and use it on the plane to attack someone. The bottles are large bottles of spirits and wine that are for self service purposes.

I emailed BA to report this but as yet have had no reply. Maybe it is me being overly cautious, or my natural scouse instincts kicking in, but it doesn't seem like the best idea to give people access to knives or bottles that could be conceald within hand luggage prior to getting on a plane.
 
Its people like you worried that a terrorist could hold up a plane with a fork that have given us these ridiculous rules in the first place.
 
I filled my laptop bag with bisuits from the lounge after finding out my flight was being delayed.

Classy. :cool:
 
I always stock up on RedBull for the car in the airport exec. lounges. It saves paying £2/can in motorway services.

...What?
 
It's the same at the BMI business lounges. I could easily walk onto the aircraft with a range of knives, forks, broken glass and so on. It is a security hole which should be addressed. I mentioned it to a member of staff when I was flying last year but was fobbed off with a "I'll see what I can do".

You'd be surprised at how many cameras are focused on you when in an airport but that's easy to bypass.
 
OoOverclockaoO said:
I have yet to find any free red bull in the lougnes :(
The ... something lounge at Luton (I used to fly to Edinburgh a lot) had a mini-fridge full of the stuff. The lovely receptionist told me to help myself.
 
To be honest the plastic knives they serve on all BA classes are just if not more dangerous than the metal ones.

I have to admit when i flew first eating with plastic knives did take the shine away.

I don't see how it is a security risk though, a guy in the plane starts killing people, the captain isn't going to let them into the flight deck.
 
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