Constant passport checks
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Constant passport checks
Hello,
Can someone please explain to me the constant need to have passports and boarding passes checked by people who are sometimes not even 50 feet away from each other?
I recently went through Kuala Lumpur and had to go through security to get into the transit lounge. Really? I just got off a plane? I then had passport and boarding pass checked again by staff for reasons unknown. I had only just showed them to security maybe 2 mins previously. Leaving the departure lounge to head off to the gate and checked again! Went to my departure lounge and had to show passport and boarding pass again just to line up for the security check to enter the lounge. Then security wanted to see all documents again. Then when we boarded the wanted it all again.
My god how many times do they need to check!!
Can someone please explain to me the constant need to have passports and boarding passes checked by people who are sometimes not even 50 feet away from each other?
I recently went through Kuala Lumpur and had to go through security to get into the transit lounge. Really? I just got off a plane? I then had passport and boarding pass checked again by staff for reasons unknown. I had only just showed them to security maybe 2 mins previously. Leaving the departure lounge to head off to the gate and checked again! Went to my departure lounge and had to show passport and boarding pass again just to line up for the security check to enter the lounge. Then security wanted to see all documents again. Then when we boarded the wanted it all again.
My god how many times do they need to check!!
Good for job creation............
Can someone please explain to me the constant need to have passports and boarding passes checked by people who are sometimes not even 50 feet away from each other?
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I also like how some airports want you to check your luggage then take it to the screening point and others require you get it x rayed first. They roll their eyes at you if get it wrong like your an idiot.
Some want shoes off and others want shoes on. Laptops out or laptops in the bag? I give up!
Some want shoes off and others want shoes on. Laptops out or laptops in the bag? I give up!
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Apparently inconsistency is intentional. Keeps the Blackhats guessing*
*and if you believe this works! I have a bridge in New York that I'm looking to sell ...
I suppose nobody will be able to travel without valid documents.*
* see above
*and if you believe this works! I have a bridge in New York that I'm looking to sell ...
I suppose nobody will be able to travel without valid documents.*
* see above
Heathrow Harry - that's not quite how it happens.
The first person (security) checks that you're the same person who was given that boarding pass.
The second person (BA) is doing the normal boarding procedure.
The first person (security) checks that you're the same person who was given that boarding pass.
The second person (BA) is doing the normal boarding procedure.
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Flying YTZ to Reagan.
Passport/ boarding card checked no less than 11 times.
OH still holds the record at 12.
Most of these checks by airport security staff not CBSA CATSA or TSA.
OH refused at one point to see what they'd do.
Answer was : stand there with mouth open while police officers looked on laughing.
Guess they don't like amateurs either!
Passport/ boarding card checked no less than 11 times.
OH still holds the record at 12.
Most of these checks by airport security staff not CBSA CATSA or TSA.
OH refused at one point to see what they'd do.
Answer was : stand there with mouth open while police officers looked on laughing.
Guess they don't like amateurs either!
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At Schiphol last week it was checked at the bag drop and gate. Hand luggage and it would have been gate only. However, boarding card was shown a few times including buying a box of chocolates. 
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There is a direct correlation between a countries democracy and the amount of passport checks. Less democracy = more checks.
Funnily enough, you find the same correlation in regards to armed military men with machine guns. The more of those you see in an airport, the less likely you are to be in a democracy.
The one that took the cake for me, was when I was boarding a Turkish Airline flight in Istanbul. After about 6754 passport checks at every point, I couldn't help but laugh when halfway down the jetway (in the fu*king jetway, people) we got stopped and another "important person with stern Cheka face" wanted to check the passport. That's when I knew Turkey wasn't really ready for EU membership.
Democracy, my a*se.
Funnily enough, you find the same correlation in regards to armed military men with machine guns. The more of those you see in an airport, the less likely you are to be in a democracy.
The one that took the cake for me, was when I was boarding a Turkish Airline flight in Istanbul. After about 6754 passport checks at every point, I couldn't help but laugh when halfway down the jetway (in the fu*king jetway, people) we got stopped and another "important person with stern Cheka face" wanted to check the passport. That's when I knew Turkey wasn't really ready for EU membership.
Democracy, my a*se.
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"Heathrow Harry - that's not quite how it happens.
The first person (security) checks that you're the same person who was given that boarding pass.
The second person (BA) is doing the normal boarding procedure."
How difficult would it be for one person to do both?????
The first person (security) checks that you're the same person who was given that boarding pass.
The second person (BA) is doing the normal boarding procedure."
How difficult would it be for one person to do both?????
In Almaty (Kazakhstan) with Boss and Bosses boss.... ummm...
They passed control with a wave of the hand and a smile (or perhaps I am imagining that bit) .. muggings here stopped due I suspect to a dodgy looking British Passport... was falling apart.
TU-154 on the tarmac burning fuel waiting for me... crew not happy, boss not happy, bosses boss very unhappy, passengers most unhappy.
First question the Kazakh officer asked me when eventually came to the office I were held in after 20 minutes... "Do you speak English Mr Flash???"..... wtf *%^.. after calming down I managed to persuade her to let me go....
Boarding TU-154... thank god in Business.... would have hated walking down the aisles "Walk of Shame".
But not end of Story.
At Moscow (home for me) I managed to get a second British passport (available to those who travel a lot to dodgy Countries) so was now holding two.
Next time at Kazakh Passport control.... same Lady... (there IS a god!).. so I brazened up and whipped BOTH passports out.
The look on her face was PRICELESS.
They passed control with a wave of the hand and a smile (or perhaps I am imagining that bit) .. muggings here stopped due I suspect to a dodgy looking British Passport... was falling apart.
TU-154 on the tarmac burning fuel waiting for me... crew not happy, boss not happy, bosses boss very unhappy, passengers most unhappy.
First question the Kazakh officer asked me when eventually came to the office I were held in after 20 minutes... "Do you speak English Mr Flash???"..... wtf *%^.. after calming down I managed to persuade her to let me go....
Boarding TU-154... thank god in Business.... would have hated walking down the aisles "Walk of Shame".
But not end of Story.
At Moscow (home for me) I managed to get a second British passport (available to those who travel a lot to dodgy Countries) so was now holding two.
Next time at Kazakh Passport control.... same Lady... (there IS a god!).. so I brazened up and whipped BOTH passports out.
The look on her face was PRICELESS.
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As done in Accra, Ghana
A couple of weeks ago in Accra:
1. At a desk BEFORE the check in counter, involving a fair bit of computer keyboard work
2. At the checkin counter
3. By a guy sitting on a stool at the entrance to the immigration hall who also checked the yellow fever vaccination record book
4. BY a military uniformed guy who then directed you to an immigration desk
5. The immigration desk
6. The person letting you into the Alkira Lounge
7. A guy standing at the beginning of the walk down to the gates
8. The boarding pass scan
9. At a desk in front of the gate lounge (involving computer use again, slow)
No more after that!
1. At a desk BEFORE the check in counter, involving a fair bit of computer keyboard work
2. At the checkin counter
3. By a guy sitting on a stool at the entrance to the immigration hall who also checked the yellow fever vaccination record book
4. BY a military uniformed guy who then directed you to an immigration desk
5. The immigration desk
6. The person letting you into the Alkira Lounge
7. A guy standing at the beginning of the walk down to the gates
8. The boarding pass scan
9. At a desk in front of the gate lounge (involving computer use again, slow)
No more after that!
Paxing All Over The World
With ref to parts of the world where jobs are in even shorter supply than in the West - some here may remember that Flanders & Swan had a phrase for it:
"It all makes work for the workingman to do"
But seriously - jobs are important there and it's why you won't see so much automated road machinery, rather, large gangs of men doing it by hand.
"It all makes work for the workingman to do"
But seriously - jobs are important there and it's why you won't see so much automated road machinery, rather, large gangs of men doing it by hand.