Originally Posted by
britenbsas
I had a similar experience on Wednesday 13/1 with American. The airport was busy but it still only took 35 mins from getting out the taxi to sitting down in the lounge with my Jack Daniels

The gate screening is definitely a joke - they literally unzipped my rucksack, peered into it and zipped it back up again. This was followed by a very cursory pat down and then it was straight onto the plane.
That just about describes what is going on in most of Europe on flights to the US on US carriers and for Argentina to the US flights too.