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We probably told them too. I assume US won't accept airplanes into its airspace with passengers that haven't been cleared to a security specification that looks almost identical to what TSA does.
Or they don't want jihadists flying planes into their buildings either ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I flew the final 6 years of that period and enjoyed flying. Post-9/11 flying sucks and is a huge drag. If you're too young to have experienced pre-9/11 airports then you really don't know what you're missing. When I was little they let me see the cockpit in flight, and the flight attendants would bring me little snacks on late flights. It was a totally different experience versus being crammed into a flying bus.
It turns out being a kid that gets things for free is pretty nice. Now compare the money your parents paid for your little vacations back then to a flight nowadays.
Just stop with the stupid/useless take off your shoes, and take your laptops/ipads out of your bags, and I'm fine with the rest.
It seems most airports have stopped asking for devices and toiletries to be removed from your bag. That’s been a nice upgrade.
At the time I was typically travelling with a laptop, a tablet, and two USB-C portable monitors. It was quite a lot to unpack and re-pack.
NB: Out of concern for the sanity of myself and my fellow travelers sharing a TSA I made sure I could do it as fast as humanly possible. Everything was packed to allow the quickest possible retrieval in line...
Just stop with the stupid/useless take off your shoes, and take your laptops/ipads out of your bags, and I'm fine with the rest.
It seems most airports have stopped asking for devices and toiletries to be removed from your bag. That’s been a nice upgrade.
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I've watched enough YouTube videos, I don't think it's working.
Last year TSA intercepted almost seven thousand firearms at security checkpoints, 93% of which were loaded. So take all those crazy people, then add firearms into their vicinity, or a firearm into the hands of a well-meaning but panicking co-passenger now trying to "secure" a crowd of 300 people 30,000 feet in the air.
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Last year TSA intercepted almost seven thousand firearms at security checkpoints, 93% of which were loaded. So take all those crazy people, then add firearms into their vicinity, or a firearm into the hands of a well-meaning but panicking co-passenger now trying to "secure" a crowd of 300 people 30,000 feet in the air.
So TSA creates these unnecessarily long lines and stressful conditions, and some of the people in those lines have guns? Only a matter of time before that ends very badly.
If it wasn't for this so-called "theatre", I'd have accidentally got on a plane with more than 50ml of toothpaste last week, and I'm sure I don't need to explain the damage that would have caused.
last week i accidentally flew SAN -> DEN with not one, but TWO new full-sized tubes of toothpaste without incident. we were so lucky to have avoided catastrophe.