I'll say it again.. The gate screening is useless...

If they are not going to pull people for a real suspicous reason (OTHER than looks, e.g. ticket purchase -one way vs. rnd trip, ID that may not be legit, etc..) then stop doing the gate screening - for real gate screening to work they need to check ALL people. They do this quite well on flights to the UK leaving Germany and France (mainly to check immigration paperwork/passports)

It boils down to if they are doing the job correctly when you FIRST go through screening, why rescreen at the gate???

There is NO legitimate security reason to do this other than to make people feel "safer". I've been boarded TWICE on a tight connection when the security screener already left - so tell me what use is it but to inconvenience people and take screening agents away from the security checkpoints.

I would rather have MORE agents at the security checkpoints rotating through - with people getting sufficent breaks so they are at their best and alert. With the crowds the way they are at airports it won't be long before some agents just become complacent due to continual day in day out workloads.


[This message has been edited by NickP 1K (edited 07-04-2002).]