Good deeds go unspoken

SO nice to see the great comments about security as in Charlie and Aideen’s letter.

From my experience of security on kerbside and the screen-points, personnel are always doing the very best they can to keep travellers safe and to reach their destination as hassle-free as possible and often do good deeds above and beyond the call of duty.

Unfortunately many of those deeds go unspoken and unappreciated in the haste to get where you are going.

People forget the trained airport officers are there to do a particular job. To keep a smile on their faces is as simple as preparing yourself for processing.

Read the signs around you and remove the items from carry luggage requested of you. Don’t leave it until the last minute. If you are pulled aside, for goodness sake don’t take it personally and put on a scene. You may have forgotten to take something out.

Guards have procedures and regulations they must follow so if you are told ”Don’t touch your bag” they mean it.

And don’t forget you are being monitored by CCTV. It is an airport after all. Les Johnson, Edmonton 1992: A computer virus called Michelangelo strikes thousands of personal computers around the world. 1997: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II

launches the first official royal web site. 2009: North Korea threatens South Korea passenger planes amid rising tensions on Korean Peninsula, prompting some other airlines to reroute flights. 2015: Lawyers for Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan (above) visit the convicted drug traffickers on Nusakambangan, the Indonesian prison island where they are to be executed. 2017: Nepalese authorities say Australian man Matthew Jones has died of apparent altitude sickness near the Mt Everest base camp.