Originally Posted by miamiflyer8

I agree, transiting from the EU to the US is tiring. When we landed we were directed to transit security even if EU arrivals are clean and there was a Gözen rep. manning the airside passage, he asked where I was going and I said "Miami". He then told me to proceed thru the transit checkpoint "Because US flight".


Well security was breeze but what was going on at the gate pain in the a**. When I got there, both TK and Gözen security had to do the visa check and ended up with 4 stickers on my passport. And of course return tickets and esta printouts and blood samples were asked for.

After that came a counter you had to give your bp and passport and his job was to make sure you have all the stickers and direct you to secondary screening if you're SSSS or you look suspicious.

As luck would have it I got SSSS on my bp which also sent me to secondary at the gate and that took around 10 mins where they swabbed my hands for explosives and searched every crevice of my backpack.

Suffice to say from getting to the gate to the plane was an hour long process even if you had fast lane access.