Originally Posted by mikeef
Wouldn't denying access to the sterile area be tantamount to prohibiting a passenger to fly, since the passengers need to pass through the sterile areas to reach the plane?
Mike
It's the same veiled language that they use at shoe carnivals. They can't legally say (or so the TSAers here say) that you must remove your shoes. However, most shoe carnivals use the "We highly recommend that you remove your shoes" line and automatically send you to secondary if you don't. So they can't say it's required because they're not allowed, so they sidestep it with a "suggestion" that means exactly the same thing.