Are America's ridiculous airline "safety" measures going to be a boon to non-American airports (please read)

[azawalli]

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"Air New Zealand Offers Round-the-World Routing Avoiding the U.S." That was a recent headline from U.K.-based Business Traveler magazine. For the past several years, fliers bound from Australia and New Zealand to Europe by way of U.S. stopovers have been raising a ruckus about security policies that require all passengers, even those merely in transit to other countries, to clear U.S. immigration formalities -- a process that includes fingerprinting, photographing and baggage rechecking. Air New Zealand has responded with the launch of a service from Auckland to Europe with a hassle-free transfer at Vancouver, British Columbia, eliminating its long-standing Auckland-Los Angeles-London route. Air Canada is following suit with a nonstop Vancouver-Sydney flight, bypassing its traditional layover in Hawaii, which, in the words of the magazine, "will enable global travelers to avoid the United States." What have we come to?From Salon Magazine's "Ask the Pilot" column. The URL is:http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2007/08/10/askthepilot240/

[diggleM]

Good for them. The security is probably helping us stay safe, but I would probably be doing the same thing as New Zealand and all those other countries.

[StefanC]

People don't want to avoid the U.S.. they want to go to the U.S... If you've got nothing to hide then why worry about the extra security? I'm Canadian but I love to travel to the U.S. and don't mind the extra security at all.

[rickw]

Excellent news....less crowds, less terrorists, I'm going to New York!!!