Originally Posted by
etch5895
Let me add a few European airports to your list of professionals, Alex:
MUC, HAM, CGN, DUS, STR, CDG, LYS, LEJ, TXL. The list goes on and on...
Fast, efficient, thorough security and everyone is polite. I left Heathrow off the list because they have done some barking in the very recent past.
I pass through Heathrow once a year, and I find the agents very human. They smile, engage in a word or two if you speak to them ,and still get the job done.
The current TSA agents are nothing compared to the Yahoos who manned the gates just after 9/11. I had to travel the week after the 9/11 through Logan, you could not gather a worse group of agents if you tried: think young men who had taken too many steroids and had the bad complexion and attitude to prove it.