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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Boston, Jo'burg, HK
Programs: AA EXP, Hyatt Lifetime Diamond, CX Gold, Mrs. Pickles travels for free
Posts: 13,189
I usually pretend, worldwide, that there are no liquids and no bags. The vast majority of the time, nobody bats an eyelash, including at HND, NRT, and KIX. Only at LHR once the jobsworths made a big show of basically emulating an industrial action because they wanted to "teach me a lesson." Some poor woman on my predicament actually lost her flight because they were so deliberately deliberate over something that, done correctly and efficiently, shouldn't take more than a minute or two.