Originally Posted by
Fredd
Our recent experience with gate security at DEL (CO DEL-EWR) involved everything out, including all electronics, belts and shoes off, and a fairly invasive rub-down, although much more efficient and quick than that of the TSA. This was in addition to the fairly thorough wanding search as we entered security, and for that matter the two wanding searches we'd already undergone to take two metro trains from our hotel to the airport.
IST is the same way for DL flights back to the US.