Originally Posted by thesaints
Before 9/11 security at US airports was lower then in Europe... I think box cutters wouldn't have been allowed on board in Europe to begin with...
I remember buying a bunch of big Henckels kitchen knives with my wife in Munich in 1993 and bringing them home in carry-on baggage MUC-LHR-IAD. Security in the US pre-9/11 was a joke, yes, but let's not hold Europe up as a paragon of excellencev here.