"Final boarding call for Al-Kyder and Terry Wrist..."

[Keith T 2]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/al-...5407999231.html

 

In usual Chaser-style satire...

Perhaps inappropriate in the current climate, particularly after a DJ plane from NAN to SYD was searched after a bomb threat, but kinda cute in retrospect.

But more seriously, it does expose a serious security flaw in the quick check system both Qantas and Virgin Blue use - at no point will you be asked for photo id should you obtain ur boarding pass via the quick check machines. Just a simple swipe of your credit card and it's all systems go. Which makes me wonder what happens if would-be terrorists buy their tix with a fake credit card and use a fake name...:S And I'm sure highlighting this was the intent of the stunt. Hopefully QF and DJ will rectify that dangerous loophole.

Edited August 18, 2006 by Keith T

[Peter Smith 1]

Very funny, in hindsight.

 

However, you can hardly attack DJ over it, like the media most certainly will. I'm 110% sure someone in the world has such names, probably born decades ago, when such terms were joked about, let alone even heard of! It would almost certainly be open to a discrimination law suit (or empty threat) if such names were questioned, in good faith or not by the passenger!

[Keith T 2]

Very funny, in hindsight.

 

However, you can hardly attack DJ over it, like the media most certainly will. I'm 110% sure someone in the world has such names, probably born decades ago, when such terms were joked about, let alone even heard of! It would almost certainly be open to a discrimination law suit (or empty threat) if such names were questioned, in good faith or not by the passenger!

 

Agreed.

However I think the prank highlights a more serious issue here - the fundamental security flaw with the self service check in systems of both QF and DJ, as per my post above. I hope both airlines, or the federal government, will introduce some form of pax verification for SSCI or OLCI systems.

[Teoh Z Yao 0]

Funny indeed... At first sight I thought I read the title wrongly...

Their parents wouldn't have known in the first tenth of the 21-century such names would trigger alarm in aviation security.