<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by worldbanker:
Once the terrorists' weapons got into the airport, I don't think it is the airlines policy nor is it feasible to pat everyone down going through the gate ramp and then opening and inspecting carry on luggage at the airplane door</font>
But this is
exactly what they do in India, when I flew Jet Airways from Mumbai to Delhi last month. And then some. It didn't strike me as unreasonable, annoying, or anything other than good plain sense. And it was the
airline's employees that did the hand inspection and pat down.