Originally Posted by
Jaimito Cartero
I've gotten secondary a few times in the last year at LAX (and only LAX), and needless to say, they've never found anything. I've learned to not get upset about it, although it has made me miss a connecting flight before.
I'll be entering next in HNL, which I've never had as an intl entry before, so hopefully they're better! I used to actually like flying through LAX, but not with some of their monster security lines, and other BS.
I've been through both ORD, LAX and HNL, each once. ORD and LAX were the usual.. a few questions based on what I had checked off, then waved me through. HNL I declared a whole bunch of stuff and checked off the box for food and for soil since I was bringing sand back from Sydney. The 2nd guy I passed by said sand didn't qualify for soil and waved me through. Meanwhile a friend with me on that trip who declared and brought back nothing got the secondary.
HNL was annoying because as soon as we got off the plane we were escorted through the arrival terminal, onto a wiki wiki and transported to another terminal for customs.