Originally Posted by Bucket
I flew to Seattle last week via Minneapolis from Gatwick. Was very impressed by security at USA, and certainly at the gate for the North West flight at the Gatwick end. It's about time we all adjusted to the new cicumstances that we now find oursleves in and I for one will be glad to see an end to pax trying to heave on vast rucksacks and other paraphenalia into the overhead lockers all under the guise of 'hand luggage'.
Also means a greater emphasis on checking in early and spending less time in duty free or some bar getting plastered before the flight.
It's been a long time coming; the passenger security at UK airports is pathetic and once again we have to rely on our transatlantic cousins to show us how to do it.
Does that include systems like the one in LAX where somebody checks your ID at the foot of the escalator and somebody else checks it at the top?
All I've done is travel 30ft in a straight line in the open, with nobody around me. What could I have possibly done in those intervening 10 seconds? T
ts.
US security, especially the TSA, are thieving, incompetant- yet thouroughly officious- monkeys.