Originally Posted by
ND Sol
Why should checkpoint screening be any different at any airport unless you do gate screening and different levels of screening depending on which airport you are flying into. Otherwise, if screening is too tight at DCA, then one could just fly out of an airport that has a lower level into DCA and then make a connection airside, thus avoiding the supposed higher level of screening at DCA.
I'm not might sure if you can catch a connecting flight out of the same pier. And I believe every passenger making a connecting flight is a selectee. But all that aside, TSA screening is the same at every airport.
Last edited by DCA TSO; Jul 12, 2007 at 12:33 am