Originally Posted by
jiejie
It may not be common, but a few years ago at DTW, I was stopped on the jetway outbound to Asia, by Treasury officials and queried about cash I was carrying, etc.
I have never seen anyone stopped outbound, but for me it is pretty normal to have a large amount of cash in my home or on my person. I have spent a lot of time living in cash-only countries, in rather unstable situations. When in such places be it living or travelling, I always had enough cash on me to be able to go directly to the airport and pay cash for the next flight out.
That sort of thing is just prudent when people are being assassinated just down the road from my apartment... as was the VP of the local airline one evening.