RANT: The TXL Baggie Scam
Oct 27, 2015, 3:05 am
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TXL is also a base for Germanwimgs. Using your "logic" you might as well have posted your rant in the LH forum.
Or you could have posted your rant in the forum for practical travel safety and security issues...
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/pract...ty-issues-686/
Or you could have posted your rant in the forum for practical travel safety and security issues...
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/pract...ty-issues-686/
Oct 27, 2015, 10:37 am
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Oct 27, 2015, 1:27 pm
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I had the (dis)pleasure of transferring at TXL a few times in the recent weeks... Don't take this wrong. AB is a fine airline and I enjoyed all flights. What p!sses me off is the pre-flight security setup at TXL. Firstly, their attitudes suck (not all of them, but a noticeable part of the contingent). Secondly, not only is TXL the only airport I have seen in the past few years that still requires these little idiotic plastic ziploc bags for liquids. The security folks always refer passengers only to the automatic dispensers, which supposedly offer 2 bags for EUR 1. The trouble is: two times now the machines stiffed me without dispensing the @*&%# bags. The machines are labelled Beyer Airportservice (to my best recollection), with no phone number or email address provided. Not that I would waste time to contact them over 1 EUR, but it is a matter of principle.
Thankfully several other stores at TXL (including the pharmacy, which tends to have the shortest lineups) sell the stupid bags (1 @ EUR 0.50). Still, the security's insistence on baggies and the consistent redirection to non-working dispensers makes me wonder about a connection there.
Come on TXL, straighten up and fly right!
Thankfully several other stores at TXL (including the pharmacy, which tends to have the shortest lineups) sell the stupid bags (1 @ EUR 0.50). Still, the security's insistence on baggies and the consistent redirection to non-working dispensers makes me wonder about a connection there.
Come on TXL, straighten up and fly right!
Oct 27, 2015, 2:15 pm
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His REPEATED poor planning. You would think that after he went through TXL the first time, he would make sure to have a ziploc bag for the next trip(s), but that is obviously too much to ask for...
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Nov 2, 2015, 2:53 pm
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This is a standard rule. Good luck keeping your stuff on a US flight from HKG without a baggie - they even take sealed bottles of water that you get in the terminal.
ATH has the best freedom baggies - they are longer and a touch skinnier, so they are really good if you have odd shaped stuff.
ATH has the best freedom baggies - they are longer and a touch skinnier, so they are really good if you have odd shaped stuff.
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Nov 3, 2015, 4:16 pm
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i think i do get what OP means (maybe). in any airport i have been lately, there was no need to put your liquid stuff in the "little idiotic plastic bag", as long at it is extremely obvious that it is less than the maximum allowance (-> as it happens to be the case with the one single 100 ml item i usually travel with).
well, in any airport but TXL, where i'm consequently forced to put even one (!!) single 100 ml tube in the plastic bag, which - law or not - is just either plainly idiotic and brainless or a rip off. that said, of course i do always have one of those pretty bags with me, esp. as TXL is the only place i have seen for a long, long time which still charge you for the stupid thing. but it fits to the rest of my feelings towards TXL, even if it might have been once a great, thoughtfully planed airport with a quite unique time-saving layout (besides the AB-"container terminal" which is just a big joke, of course), it has become an appallingly worn off, sad shelter of depression imho.
well, in any airport but TXL, where i'm consequently forced to put even one (!!) single 100 ml tube in the plastic bag, which - law or not - is just either plainly idiotic and brainless or a rip off. that said, of course i do always have one of those pretty bags with me, esp. as TXL is the only place i have seen for a long, long time which still charge you for the stupid thing. but it fits to the rest of my feelings towards TXL, even if it might have been once a great, thoughtfully planed airport with a quite unique time-saving layout (besides the AB-"container terminal" which is just a big joke, of course), it has become an appallingly worn off, sad shelter of depression imho.
Nov 4, 2015, 12:44 pm
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i think i do get what OP means (maybe). in any airport i have been lately, there was no need to put your liquid stuff in the "little idiotic plastic bag", as long at it is extremely obvious that it is less than the maximum allowance (-> as it happens to be the case with the one single 100 ml item i usually travel with).
well, in any airport but TXL, where i'm consequently forced to put even one (!!) single 100 ml tube in the plastic bag, which - law or not - is just either plainly idiotic and brainless or a rip off. that said, of course i do always have one of those pretty bags with me, esp. as TXL is the only place i have seen for a long, long time which still charge you for the stupid thing. but it fits to the rest of my feelings towards TXL, even if it might have been once a great, thoughtfully planed airport with a quite unique time-saving layout (besides the AB-"container terminal" which is just a big joke, of course), it has become an appallingly worn off, sad shelter of depression imho.
well, in any airport but TXL, where i'm consequently forced to put even one (!!) single 100 ml tube in the plastic bag, which - law or not - is just either plainly idiotic and brainless or a rip off. that said, of course i do always have one of those pretty bags with me, esp. as TXL is the only place i have seen for a long, long time which still charge you for the stupid thing. but it fits to the rest of my feelings towards TXL, even if it might have been once a great, thoughtfully planed airport with a quite unique time-saving layout (besides the AB-"container terminal" which is just a big joke, of course), it has become an appallingly worn off, sad shelter of depression imho.
Nov 4, 2015, 10:50 pm
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I'm flying out of TXL later this year for the very first time, so I'm glad I ran into this thread. I'll make sure to bring my own $.02 plastic Ziploc baggies from home.
Every airport I have flown through on 5 continents has not cared even a little bit. Except one; Heathrow. Even at that bastion of incremental revenue, they give the bags out for free.
Every airport I have flown through on 5 continents has not cared even a little bit. Except one; Heathrow. Even at that bastion of incremental revenue, they give the bags out for free.
Nov 5, 2015, 1:24 am
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I always have a freedom baggie. That way, if I do have something to get indignant about in the process, they can't point at that.
Uh, no. While I dislike those who play dumb to the rules or complain when they ignore the obvious, the freedom baggie thing is, indeed, idiotic and brainless.
Uh, no. While I dislike those who play dumb to the rules or complain when they ignore the obvious, the freedom baggie thing is, indeed, idiotic and brainless.
Nov 5, 2015, 1:31 am
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Nov 5, 2015, 2:19 am
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I don't bring that much, so when I go through security I just throw them directly into the tray (1 pair of contact lens and 1 eye drop) - I never have any trouble with it.
Nov 5, 2015, 4:25 am
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Nov 5, 2015, 4:32 am
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