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Old Oct 5, 2009 | 11:16 am
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Originally Posted by Dovster
El Al has long had special check-in areas in Italy but with a difference -- they actually have real security there. Each person is interviewed by an El Al security agent before being allowed to check-in.

I could understand it if Alitalia did the same thing, but to have passengers go to a special area for security purposes and then treat them the same as any other passenger makes no sense at all.
I agree (and I am well aware of what El Al does, I've flown them) but the US asked for it so now we have the T5 fiasco at FCO. Not shocking to me really. You should read some of the language the US and some other countries put into some of our NATO SOFAs and use treaties. It makes this look simple.

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