Originally Posted by
halls120
The difference being that at CPH, AMS, BRU, FRA, MUC, CDG, STR, NRT, HKG, SIN, BKK, etc, the checkpoints are properly staffed, the rules are clear and consistent, and the lines move faster than the F'ed up mess that is most US international airports.
Honestly? Maybe with the exception of BKK, I would much rather go through TSA here in the US (with PreCheck of course) than any of those locations. Not only do all of those locations require you to take out your laptops and be 'liquid compliant' (something you mostly get a reprieve from with PreCheck), many of those locations (Europe, HKG, SIN to name a few) make you take out your tablets in ADDITION to your laptops (something even non-PreCheck TSA doesn't make you do).
Not to mention that at international airports where screening is genuinely less painful than TSA (DXB and DOH come to mind for me), there is always secondary screening for US, Australia and UK-bound flights, negating that 'benefit'. And the secondary screening tends to be the painful TSA type with no option for PreCheck.
I'll take PreCheck over the vast majority of international airport screening today, thanks.