How do Canada and Mexico compare?
Nov 26, 2011, 10:07 pm
#31
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 629
Do you salute them or something? How are they supposed to know what your attitude is? Why is it that everyone who is just plain lucky nearly always believes that it is their own skill that caused it? You do realize that events occur when you are not there to see them, right?
Nov 29, 2011, 5:39 am
#32
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: SAN
Programs: PR Premier Elite
Posts: 1,950
Mexico allows terror-water and everything. Aside from concourses that serve US bound flights, security is generally pretty straightforward and practical.
Mexican security does still have a fetish for confiscating small pointy things that TSA has mostly gotten over.
The official banned items list for Mexico is here. http://www.aeropuertosgap.com.mx/......eguridad/4.PDF
Mexican security does still have a fetish for confiscating small pointy things that TSA has mostly gotten over.
The official banned items list for Mexico is here. http://www.aeropuertosgap.com.mx/......eguridad/4.PDF
Dec 2, 2011, 2:01 pm
#33
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: IAH, HOU
Programs: UA Silver, AA Plat, SPG Platinum, Hyatt Plat, HH Gold, Former CO Presidential Plat (for a day!)
Posts: 217
Australia's security was great when flying internally. I actually carried on 3 or 4 bottles of wine (because they were too heavy to check in on a pre-paid weight suitcase)
Dec 2, 2011, 2:08 pm
#34
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: IAH, HOU
Programs: UA Silver, AA Plat, SPG Platinum, Hyatt Plat, HH Gold, Former CO Presidential Plat (for a day!)
Posts: 217
Mexico City
Getting to fly out of Mexico City (Terminal 2) very often I have been frustrated many times with their security procedures (makes the TSA look brilliant by comparison!)
1. Demanding that iPads be removed from carry on to go through the X-ray scanner.
2. (When traveling back to the US) When boarding AT the sleeve, they perform sometimes random, other times full passenger checks for all carry-on items where they have you put everything on a table and then they proceed to unpack your bag to look for "something"...
This last measure has been relatively common across US-Bound latam originating flights, and it still baffles me as to the goal of these very superficial last minute searches... as in a lot of things, I understand the reasoning behind it, but in practice the people doing this are so lax or untrained that all it does is simply inconvenience a lot of us without any additional security benefit that can be seen.
(I'll get off my soapbox for now)
1. Demanding that iPads be removed from carry on to go through the X-ray scanner.
2. (When traveling back to the US) When boarding AT the sleeve, they perform sometimes random, other times full passenger checks for all carry-on items where they have you put everything on a table and then they proceed to unpack your bag to look for "something"...
This last measure has been relatively common across US-Bound latam originating flights, and it still baffles me as to the goal of these very superficial last minute searches... as in a lot of things, I understand the reasoning behind it, but in practice the people doing this are so lax or untrained that all it does is simply inconvenience a lot of us without any additional security benefit that can be seen.
(I'll get off my soapbox for now)
Dec 2, 2011, 5:22 pm
#35
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 6,967
This last measure has been relatively common across US-Bound latam originating flights, and it still baffles me as to the goal of these very superficial last minute searches... as in a lot of things, I understand the reasoning behind it, but in practice the people doing this are so lax or untrained that all it does is simply inconvenience a lot of us without any additional security benefit that can be seen.
(I'll get off my soapbox for now)
(I'll get off my soapbox for now)
of the US government to conduct them, they often make them as unobtrusive as possible whilst still meeting the guidelines of the 'request' of the US government.