Originally Posted by
uanj
Traveling to the US you will go through transit security at TPE. Normal airport screening, no liquids allowed. There is random additional screening at the gate after your present your BP and before you enter the jetway. In recent years I've not seen anyone get a security interview as such, the random bag check is done on a table as you board the plane. I have also not seen many people selected for this, but it does happen. When it happened to me they took 20-30 seconds for a cursory peek inside my computer bag and that was it.
Last month there was an additional passport check as you entered the gate area before you go down to the lobby seating area which was new and seemed redundant, but as far as I could tell they were checking passports and names. Maybe they were looking for someone.
Hope this answers your question.
Originally Posted by
yannix
I've had this happen at TPE once last year. Also happened to my travel companion at NRT. No SSSS in the BP. IIRC, there was no interview, just a bag inspection right before the boarding.
Just arrived from my SIN-TPE-SFO, and yes, both
yannix and
uanj were right; there was an additional passport check and just the standard interview questions of whether the bag is packed by you and whether it has any dangerous items. No bag inspection for me; I saw many people being selected for extra pat-downs and bag inspections; probably most of them had the quad S and boarded early.
Transit security at TPE was a breeze, just like PreCheck, and it meant I had enough time at the lounge. Flight went peaceful until at SFO where I had a miscommunication and misunderstanding due to a conflicting information provided by the crews and the ground staff/security at SFO instructing me not to get back on the plane once I deboarded while the crew instructed me to "wait at the exit" in Mandarin - because at that time I wanted to take pics with them as the flight (JX) was THAT GOOD. Luckily while I did get a bit close, I didn't step my foot back in; otherwise I would have been the bad guy, and they would have known me, strip me off my PreCheck and GE, and put me in the SSSS/no-fly list (okay this might be a bit overboard). Even the pilots were perplexed as to why - but I, the ground security, and the crews, worked on a win-win solution.
EDIT: At that time I had no idea that the crew's authority stopped at the door. SFO's security wasn't wrong at all counts, and that makes this partly my fault.