Originally Posted by
Loren Pechtel
The whole point of the bag is to not block the x-ray image, what do they gain with requiring the laptops out??
Because most bags aren't x-ray friendly, and they want to avoid having to rescan bags just because people don't know what they're doing.
The whole "checkpoint friendly bags" thing is a TSA specific phenomenon. Security agencies in other countries have their own standards and do not care about what the TSA accepts (and some would argue that's for good reason).
https://www.tsa.gov/news/releases/20...bag-procedures