Originally Posted by
krazykanuck
IAH has these airserv employees that guard the entrance to the security lines. They are so useless. This morning flying out of IAH I was flying DL but the T-A security lines were nuts and precheck wasn't open, so I went over to C.
Airserv dude: this is a Delta boarding pass, you have to go to A
Me: no I don't
Dude: but this is a United only checkpoint
Me: no, it's terminal C
At that point I just put my BP in my pocket and walked past him. Why can't they just make sure you have a BP and leave it at that not making up BS rules that would likely trick the infrequent traveller?
Just to make it better, the TSA guy said we don't see many DL BPs over here. I told him I know better than to clear security at A and he simply laughed and agreed with me.
You'd be surprised how many of these "<redacted by moderator>" have no clue which terminals are connected airside. At LAX, regardless if I fly UA or AA, I always go to T4 as I can use the AC with my membership and eat there and shower before my flight. So far, I haven't been hassled much, but the potential stress of dealing with these mostly beyond useless <redacted by moderator> is something I dread every time. Since these employees don't have scanners, sometimes to get past them, I just keep older digital BP's on my phone and flash one that looks like something in the ballpark of what they'd expect to see. Of course, once I get to the actual TSA checker, I then pull out the real one.
Actually, once, many years ago at SFO back when AA shared T3 with UA, and my AA flight got cancelled and I got moved to UA, so I walked over to the UA gate, as they're connected airside, and the GA asked me "how I managed to get to the UA gates from the AA gates." She started to freak out that I must've not re-cleared security. I had to tell her several times that the AA gates were in the same security area as UA. I even invited her to come take a look