Originally Posted by
tanja
I always fly KLM or SAS. Never a US carrier.
I have never been groped in Europe so far. My final airport is CPH. So far they have always been polite with manors. And even if I am not shy I really dont want that done to me.
And it scares me that they could do that to my 5 year old grand daugther. She and her family would freak out.
So even if I want them here to visit I am glad that they dont take the chance.
Also do they at CPH have a female on a female and so on? Or is it like in Norway you can ask for one if you get a male.
At CPH you can ask for a screener of your own gender, that's what their signs/video says. There is usually one of either gender on the line, one before the WTMD and one after. I've seen them swap around some, but not seen people ask for a different screener, so don't know if they can always just swap.
I've only had pat down from same-sex screener. They were not impolite as such, did not physically hurt me and I was dressed to inside-waistband check. However, they didn't like me almost turning around to watch my stuff... "We have video". Yeah, sure, are you gonna close down the airport why you find the person who ran off with my stuff? No, didn't think so. So how will the video help when stuff goes missing?
Anyway, at CHP they are pretty cool, not impolite, but not friendly. They have not ever hurt me, or gone to the resistance. Nor have I heard them yell. As airports go, not a bad place, I think - they also still regularly test the security wait and the postings are pretty accurate.
I do not worry about going through there, nor would I worry about taking family through there. When I took 17 yo school kids to the US last year, I did (big time) worry about security for the flight home, but other than a boy getting turned back to check his bag with a huge bottle of perfume for his mum, nothing happened at security. And yes, he had been told a million times :-)
DanishFlyer