The airline stuff has reminded me of a story I heard about Rod Stewart and Sting. Rod was once on a plane and found out it was String's and he was sat in his seat, he said 'that String he takes himself far too seriously' and then carved 'Sting you miserable c*nt' into the table with a knife. Sting wasn't best pleased when he saw it, he then chained Rod's gates closed or summat, the miserable twat.
Rod Stewart was able to take a knife on to an airplane?
It wasn't on the same scale but I once faced a truly hideous queue leading to security at Dublin airport in the days following the shoe bomb incident. Every single person was treated as a potential terrorist and had to remove shoes, belts, wristwatches and even the coins from their pockets. Well, I write 'every single person' but forgot Boyzone! Security rules don't apply to them. They arrived while I was there, were whisked through to the head of the line, security was deemed unnecessary and they were invited to by-pass the scanners everyone else had to pass through.
Perhaps I shouldn't have revealed that as even now, some evil terrorist is honing his singing/musicianship/boy-band credentials so at the peak of his fame, he will be invited on to a plane with a 101ml bottle of water and a tube of toothpaste and with those ingredients, plunge the world into a carnage hitherto thought impossible.