Originally Posted by
ESpen36
Of course, you still have to remove all metal objects from your pockets, cell phone, etc. For me, that's almost more annoying than pulling out my laptop (which is just one thing).
Been going through the metal detector for my whole living memory lifetime (since the early 80s; I flew a few times in the late 1970s but don't remember being that age or whether they had metal detectors.)
I'm used to leaving my keys in the bag (if I bring them at all; if my wife if dropping me off/picking me up at the airport rather than doing long term parking, I usually just don't bring them) and slimming down anything extraneous in my wallet before going.