Originally Posted by InTheAirGuy (Post 28974158)

Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere.

This will go 'well'.

http://www.airlive.net/flying-to-the...from-thursday/

It will probably involve staggering incompetence, ridiculous questions ("why do you have a laptop with you?"), and more....

Originally Posted by Buster (Post 28975670)

AA check-in agents do this little interview from LHR, and the questions are weird and moronic. I'm not really sure what they're meant to do other than fluster someone?

Originally Posted by Buster (Post 28975670)

The article also says that there could be physical inspections of electronic devices. I'm not sure what a check-in agent is going to do with my Kindle to make sure it's safe...

Originally Posted by Buster (Post 28975670)

AA check-in agents do this little interview from LHR, and the questions are weird and moronic. I'm not really sure what they're meant to do other than fluster someone?

The article also says that there could be physical inspections of electronic devices. I'm not sure what a check-in agent is going to do with my Kindle to make sure it's safe...

Originally Posted by InTheAirGuy (Post 28974158)

Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere.

This will go 'well'.

http://www.airlive.net/flying-to-the...from-thursday/

It will probably involve staggering incompetence, ridiculous questions ("why do you have a laptop with you?"), and more....

Originally Posted by inet32 (Post 28976347)

The news report here on FT is that screenings will be done by “airline employees”. I can't imagine what good that will do. They will be neither trained nor motivated to accomplish anything by it except waste everyone's time.

Supposedly the Israelis have the interview stuff down to a real art or science (I've never flown there so this is my hearsay). But I don't think anyone else is as committed to doing good screening interviews as they are.

Originally Posted by swiftaw (Post 28976061)

Is this any different to the questions I get asked every time I have flown a US carrier from the UK for the last 20 years? You know, "Who packed your bags?", "Did anyone give you anything?" etc.?

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- All incoming flights to the United States will be subject to new security screening procedures, including both American citizens and foreigners possibly facing security interviews from airline employees, a U.S. government official said Wednesday.

The announcement from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration comes after five global long-haul airlines - Air France, Cathay Pacific, EgyptAir, Emirates and Lufthansa - said they would begin the new security interviews starting Thursday. A sixth carrier, Royal Jordanian, said it would begin the new procedures in mid-January after U.S. authorities granted RJ's request for a delay in implementing the measures.

However, the airlines offered different descriptions of how the interviews would take place, ranging from another form a traveler would have to fill out to actually being questioned by an airline employee.

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Both American air carriers and global airlines must comply, affecting all the 2,100 flights from around the world entering the U.S. on any given day. The directive is far broader than an earlier Trump administration ban on laptops inside the cabins of some airliners, which only targeted 10 Mideast cities and their airlines.

Confusion greeted the new rules. While five global long-haul carriers said they would begin the new security interviews on Thursday, each offered different descriptions of how the procedure would take place, ranging from a form travelers would be required to fill out to being verbally quizzed by an airline employee. Other carriers insisted their operations remained the same.

"The security measures affect all individuals, international passengers and U.S. citizens, traveling to the United States from a last point of departure international location," said Lisa Farbstein, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration. "These new measures will impact all flights from airports that serve as last points of departure locations to the United States."

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Originally Posted by swiftaw (Post 28976061)

Is this any different to the questions I get asked every time I have flown a US carrier from the UK for the last 20 years? You know, "Who packed your bags?", "Did anyone give you anything?" etc.?