Deadline Friday! Tell the White House to Keep Knives Off Planes

Tomorrow is the last day to sign our petition asking the White House to block the Transportation Security Administration's new policy allowing small knives on planes.

Sign it now at www.noknivesonplanes.com.

This week, Flight Attendants at airports across the country have been encouraging passengers to sign the petition and to call their member of Congress to support the No Knives Act of 2013, introduced by Representatives Ed Markey (D-MA) and Michael Grimm (R-NY).

In Seattle, Karen Levy, a United Flight Attendant for 33 years, told the local news, "To us, it's total common sense. And we're the first line of defense on the aircraft." 

And in Guam, United Flight Attendant Benita Cruz said, "It's daunting that we have one more aspect of our job that could prevent us from being the best employee and security official on board the aircraft. So we certainly hope that everybody who travels or who has family who travels, or just has a concern overall, will log onto the website and sign the petition."

In Los Angeles, Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters and Janice Hahn joined Flight Attendants in supporting the proposed legislation. "It doesn't make good sense," Waters said. "It's absolutely unthinkable they could come up with this decision."

Hahn agreed, saying, "This is a bad idea. This is a huge step back in protecting American passengers."

Already, a bipartisan group of 133 members of Congress have sent a letter to TSA Administrator John Pistole asking him to reverse the knives policy.