Originally Posted by
dorakk
I recently travel YYZ - ATL round trip. On my return trip, I was pleasantly surprised that ATL security check no longer required passengers to take out their laptop as well as liquid. The TSA staff kept telling ppl "leave everything inside your bag", I wasn't aware at first and was continuing my process of taking laptop and ziplock bag (containing all my liquid) out the bag, until he pointed at me to leave everything inside.
Gotta say this was a pleasant surprise! I wonder if this is a normal for all US airport nowadays? I mostly travel within Canada so...
It's not normal for all US airports, and it won't be for quite some time and then some. Even at some of the bigger airports, there will likely be times when this "leave your laptops and liquids in your bag" may be applicable at some checkpoints but not all checkpoints at the airport. And that's whether or not they even all have the same machines across all the checkpoints at an airport.
Let's just hope that this doesn't turn out like it does at times at AMS where "no need to take out liquids and laptops" technology has been in use for quite some time and yet they had worse messes at the security checkpoints after this technology went into place than before. While a bunch of that mess is due to staffing levels, part of the mess is actually a function of how screeners and others interact with changed technology and process changes.