Originally Posted by
GUWonder
About the "security" dog and pony show, I fly TATL multiple times a month and the chances of check-in and gate "security" questioning by "security" contractors and other "supplemental" "security" is far, far higher with US airlines than with EU airlines on TATL routes.
+1, and the questioning becomes more annoying if flying out of a country where one holds neither residency nor citizenship. I would imagine this is much less of an issue for US citizens flying an US airline back home (i.e., the vast majority of thread participants).