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Remember the TSA stations that had the TDC give you a laminated paper that said you had an electronic boarding pass? Yeah, they never liked when you threw those away or put them in the bin to be x-ray'd.
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I used my iPhone to scan my BP for the first time at BWI. They don't even touch it.
(I realized afterward that I could have gone to a kiosk to print one up. Haven't flown in quite some time lol) |
Beam me up!
Originally Posted by Chrisinhouston
(Post 18646115)
This thread follows on the footsteps of other threads about the TSA at some airports asking to see your BP just after you pass through either the WTMD or the other machines. I travel through terminal E quite often and they have been doing that there for awhile, the barking moat dragon keeps telling people to empty everything out of their pockets and have their BP in their hand.
So this time I printed 2 BPs and at the podium I showed my first BP with my passport and he made the usual nonsense scribble and sent me on. I put my passport and marked up BP in my computer bag and prepared everything to go down the conveyor belt. The moat dragon was still barking orders and when she pointed me towards the cancer box I pointed to the WTMD and she asked, "So do you want to Opt out?" And I replied, "yes." She called for a male assist and pointed to the WTMD and as I passed through an older 1 striper asked to see my BP so I showed him the other one I had printed. He studied it carefully and looked on both sides, not being able to see the scribbled notations. He looked at me puzzled and asked, "Didn't someone write on this BP?" I looked at it and said, "No, doesn't look marked on to me ;) Now he is really puzzled and asks me if I did indeed pass by the TSA guy at the podium and I said "Oh sure, just a minute ago." "Didn't he write in your boarding pass?" :confused: "Oh, yes he did and I put it away with my passport, it is in my bag over there! Why do you need it?" "Well, it's my job to see it and sign off on it that it is all correctly marked off," he explained. So I said I didn't realize that and that they don't do this at any other airport I go to around the country and he replied, "well of course we don't do it the same way everywhere, the terrorists would then know our system!" He went on to explain that doing it differently at all airports helps keep our country safer. I thanked him for explaining that to me and for his efforts to keep us all safe. Then I had my body grope complete with at least one genital karate chop! :rolleyes: Why they do this makes no sense to me....Do they think that someone is going to materialize in the boarding area? Do they think that the nude-o-scope is really a transporter, and that Mr. Scott is operating it? Of course, more than once at a TSA station, did I think "Beam me up, Scotty, there is no intelligent life here." |
At BUF on Friday, I noticed a huge sign at the table where the bins are loaded that said specifically to keep out your ID and travel documents as one of the requirements along with remove liquids, take off belt etc.
I have not taken out my liquids for over a year, but for everything else on the list I was good to go. However, I was in the process of a successful SDOO, the BXS in my lane was roped off so I knew if the stuff was in my pocket, all I had to do was grab it. I walked through the WTMD, and no questions were asked. More than anything the thing about the TSA that makes me want to scream are the things they say you have to do but do not and the things they say nothing about doing, one has to do. Airport to airport inconsistency is one thing and almost understandable. Line to line, or screener to screener, is just designed incompetence. |
Originally Posted by InkUnderNails
(Post 18648762)
Line to line, or screener to screener, is just designed incompetence.
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Originally Posted by T.J. Bender
(Post 18647290)
Be aware: I've seen a TSO go ballistic during a gate check because a passenger had changed seats, printed a new boarding pass, and thrown the old one with the magic scribbles away.
Also, wouldn't having your BP on your cell phone throw a monkey wrench into the whole "hold onto your BP through security" bit? Ottermatic |
These stories warm my hearth after my experience Saturday
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/check...ience-ind.html |
Assuming you have the time, print a dozen BPs. Go thru the doc checking, put the BP in your bag and hand over a 'clean' BP. Blah blah blah, go back to the doc checker and do it over and over....should drive them all crazy
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Originally Posted by Ottermatic
(Post 18650521)
What about the case where you get gate-checked when you're connecting to a second flight? I think I've only ever gotten the magic scribble on the first boarding pass (although, I don't always have both in hand when going through security at the original airport).
Also, wouldn't having your BP on your cell phone throw a monkey wrench into the whole "hold onto your BP through security" bit? As to the first part of your post, your whole argument is based upon a false assumption. You assume that common sense prevails during gate checks. In my experience, common sense is shoved further back during gate checks than at any other point in the process, as the TSOs tend to go through your stuff especially thoroughly at the gate in hopes of catching something their checkpoint drone buddies missed. I always laugh when I see a water bottle purchased post-security confiscated at the gate, then thrown into the trash can right next to the GA's kiosk. That's totally going to make the whole terminal safe from the deadly bottle of water! |
Originally Posted by T.J. Bender
(Post 18660846)
In my experience, common sense is shoved further back during gate checks than at any other point in the process
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Originally Posted by LEONIDES
(Post 18648167)
More and more of the TSA stations are requiring you to keep the passport in your hand your boarding pass after the body scan.
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Talked about my name game adventures in another thread, but as I went through Terminal A today they were asking everyone who went through the MMW for their boarding pass.
I opted out and not once was my BP checked a second time. I even threw the squiggly one on the trash and had a second one on me just in anticipation of annoying Capital Redundant when he saw no squiggles. Unfortunately, I didn't get to use it. |
Last time through I printed my BP so small that the it was barely legible, the TSA employee strained to read it and his marks were actually larger than the printed portion of the BP.
Upon going through the metal detector (the AIT was broken), I was asked for my BP and I handed him my miniature BP, he looked at and asked where was the rest of it. I said that was it and I am not really sure why it printed so small, but I would get the Club to sort it out. He handed it back to me, said that he guessed it was alright and let me through. Dan |
Originally Posted by dan1431
(Post 18728898)
Last time through I printed my BP so small that the it was barely legible, the TSA employee strained to read it and his marks were actually larger than the printed portion of the BP.
Upon going through the metal detector (the AIT was broken), I was asked for my BP and I handed him my miniature BP, he looked at and asked where was the rest of it. I said that was it and I am not really sure why it printed so small, but I would get the Club to sort it out. He handed it back to me, said that he guessed it was alright and let me through. Dan |
Originally Posted by dan1431
(Post 18728898)
Last time through I printed my BP so small that the it was barely legible, the TSA employee strained to read it and his marks were actually larger than the printed portion of the BP.
Upon going through the metal detector (the AIT was broken), I was asked for my BP and I handed him my miniature BP, he looked at and asked where was the rest of it. I said that was it and I am not really sure why it printed so small, but I would get the Club to sort it out. He handed it back to me, said that he guessed it was alright and let me through. Dan |
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