Delta Air Lines CEO Expresses Major Concern Over TSA's Small Knife Policy

The Delta Air Lines CEO has expressed his anger over the Transportation Security Administration's decision to allow passengers to bring small knives on planes.

Delta CEO Richard Anderson wrote a letter to TSA Administrator John Pistole, expressing his concern and those of the Delta flight attendants over the new policy which Pistole announced on Tuesday.

Allowing passenger to carry on small knives "will add little value to the customer security process flow in relation to the additional risk for our cabin staff and customers," Anderson said in the letter, according to the Associated Press.

"If the purpose is to increase security checkpoint flow, there are much more effective steps we can take together to streamline the security checkpoints with risk-based screening mechanisms," he said.

Anderson isn't the only one who expressed over the TSA lifting the 11-year ban on small knives and allowing other weapons such as novelty baseball bats less than 24 inches long, toy plastic bats, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and two golf clubs. Air mashal groups and flight attendant groups have also expressed their opposition of the policy which is set to go into effect on April 25.

The only group that hasn't seem to show backlash is Airlines for America. When asked to comment on the policy, they showed their support for the TSA without mentioned the specific new rules.

"We support the TSA's approach of combining its vast experience with billions of passenger screenings with thorough risk-based assessments," Jean Medina, a spokeswoman for the association said according to AP.

Under the policy, the knives that will be allowed are those that are able to fold up and have blades that are 2.36 inches or less in length and are less than 1/2-inch wide.

The TSA made this decision saying that small knives no longer present a risk to flights since cockpit have strong doors that can't be broken into. The TSA would rather focus on higher risk situations and items such as explosives.