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Old Jun 15, 2022 | 10:20 am
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Originally Posted by Goodoldflyer
Anyone have personal experience with that? What are they going to do? Use your deodorant? Looking through your carry-on thoroughly takes like one minute.

Sometimes I wonder if people overthink things, I'm just asking for personal experiences that indicate that you should offload your carry-ons onto someone else.
It could take 1 minute, or it could take longer. Why risk it?
Of course this kind of defeats the purpose of the heightened screening, I think random unannounced more detailed checks (which certainly happen even on domestic US flights) are incrementally more effective.
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