Question, since I've never had to do this: if you are denied boarding at a connecting airport because you refuse a TSA gate search (or, for that matter, you simply missed the flight because you became too engulfed in a newspaper), does your checked luggage get pulled off the plane, and are you able to retrieve it at that airport?
Originally Posted by
sbagdon
I'm really suprised they haven't ramped up gate checks, at hubs... just pick the connecting pax, who are connecting... how many people are going to vote with their feet, and leave the sterile area... in a connecting city?