Originally Posted by
doober
If they goons are just wandering through the gate area, I hope any pax whom they approached would have said "no, you may not." I presume one does not have the opportunity to do that at specific gate checks - but just wandering asking to search people's bags is too much.
Unfortunately I was not approached but I hate to say that every person whom was approached complied with no questions asked (and I actually only saw the one TSO change his gloves once during the time I was observing him).
I have not seen this anywhere else except for SAT and was just curious if this was part of some "surge" or whatever they are calling it these days. If it is I would hate to see this migrate to other airports since not one person questioned why the extra search was necessary.
--DD73