One person at a time only?
Aug 22, 2014, 9:57 am
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One person at a time only?
I just got a nasty look from a TSA agent when I accompanied my husband to the id check station, I was ordered to get back in the line. Since when?
I asked how this worked for families with children and was told that one parent and one child can go at a time. Well I guess it's good that parents don't travel with more than one child each, huh?
I asked how this worked for families with children and was told that one parent and one child can go at a time. Well I guess it's good that parents don't travel with more than one child each, huh?
Aug 22, 2014, 11:02 am
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I just got a nasty look from a TSA agent when I accompanied my husband to the id check station, I was ordered to get back in the line. Since when?
I asked how this worked for families with children and was told that one parent and one child can go at a time. Well I guess it's good that parents don't travel with more than one child each, huh?
I asked how this worked for families with children and was told that one parent and one child can go at a time. Well I guess it's good that parents don't travel with more than one child each, huh?
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Aug 22, 2014, 4:49 pm
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I guess that they want people separate so they can compare stories if they had to. If people were entering a country on a so called holiday but were planning to work and the agent could ask the other adult.
I used to always go up with my husband, now they are very strict and we just go one at a time. I was just at Singapore Airport and the roving agent guy asked a family with 6 kids, or rather told them that each parent was to take 3 kids each in 2 groups.
I used to always go up with my husband, now they are very strict and we just go one at a time. I was just at Singapore Airport and the roving agent guy asked a family with 6 kids, or rather told them that each parent was to take 3 kids each in 2 groups.
Aug 23, 2014, 5:20 am
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Aug 23, 2014, 6:13 am
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Yes, it was TSA not passport control, at SFO T3 Precheck. We always stay together in line and I've never had an issue with TSA. (Once in a great while some passport control officer makes us process separately, but mostly not.)
We last traveled together a month ago, at the same airport and at the same TSA checkpoint. As you might imagine, I'm no fan of "rules" that appear and disappear out of nowhere.
We last traveled together a month ago, at the same airport and at the same TSA checkpoint. As you might imagine, I'm no fan of "rules" that appear and disappear out of nowhere.
Aug 23, 2014, 8:39 am
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Aug 23, 2014, 12:56 pm
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Where are you that you can get on a plane without them checking your ID vs boarding pass?
Aug 24, 2014, 6:06 pm
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OP is talking about TSA/PreCheck
I have to say, SFO is my home airport and i have NEVER seen TSA let a couple through together for ID check.
