Originally Posted by exbayern

I know that I have whinged about it here before, but it irks me that in Germany at a German airport German passengers are being 'interviewed' in English by contractors who sometimes cannot manage more than broken German.

My favourite stupid questions recently for UA flights were 'do you have any electronics in your carry on luggage?' and 'what did you purchase at the airport today?'. I had to bite my tongue and not give a smart reply to the first question, and as MUC has that huge shopping area in the central part of the terminal after getting off the S-bahn and before check in or security, I could see people having to give rather lengthy replies.

I don't see what purpose the 'extra security' provides other than perhaps to gauge nervousness but if someone is asking me the questions in broken German they most likely are not as focussed on me but rather struggling to ask the questions and understand the responses.

Sorry for the rant, but it does puzzle me!