Just you just do this out of habit like many people (mostly stupid Americans) do, or were you actually told to do it? I'm just surprised, as I never was. And this was all for US bound flights.

I wonder how many nationalities you could replace "Americans" with in the above post without setting off the FT PC alarms ;)

... aren't you from California? :confused:

Told to. I tried to walk through without doing so.

Did you have to take off your shoes when you were flying intra-European flights too?

Without setting off the WTMD I doubt I have ever been told to remove my shoes when flying in Europe.

Vienna (VIE)
 

I just came back from Europe via Vienna. Shoes stayed on. The only things they were doing was the laptop out and the KHIAI bags. No FRA-style groping and no "interview."

How refreshing (except for the Kippie bag)! ...and, we arrived without being blown up by shampoo or shoes!

LHR plays the asinine shoe games at Flight Connections sometimes.

That's interesting - and bad.

LHR checks shoes for explosives in T3 or at least that's what they say. As long as you know about it you can pass through to the right of this and don't have to take off your shoes.

That is so funny and true I simply had to get it up here again! ^

:)

Is it just me or does some of the TSA-employee commentary re: SPOT and BDO's remind anyone else of those people that volunter for the local volunteer fire department and have $4,350 of emergency lights on their $2,000 truck to use the one time every 6 months that a fire occurs?

What difference does it make where he/she is from in terms of the opinion they're allowed to voice? Is there a[nother] secret clause in the TOS that limits commentary according to your residence or nationality?

How very consistent coming from people who have a such an hysteric problem with the first names of TSAers being mentioned!:p:D

Well FWIW my personal security theartre worked flawlessly this week.

"Oh, no, you don't have to take your dogtags off." Sailed through four airports, no bag checks, no annoying questions, just "thank you for your service."

I will concur with this argument as it relates to LHR.

In January, I passed through the T3 security. After the initial x-ray / mag scan, some were corralled into Heathrow's separated security line which hosts the shoe carnival. It was random and at that point the person doing the herding of sheep has no idea what anyone's destination is.

Also, my LGW-DUB and ORK-AMS routes involved no shoe carnival. I do not recall if anyone was using litre bags for liquid and I simply don't bother with any liquids whatsoever when I travel now. Also previous year's European flights of HHN-KRK, OTP-FRA-DUB, and IST-LTN were likewise relatively pain free as far as security screening goes.

hardly hysterical ... but I do have a problem with identifying specific individual TSA employees for accusation/ridicule.

To answer your two questions ... (1) none ... and (2) not that I'm aware of. I wasn't implying otherwise.

Folks,

Please take the personal issues outside. If you want to ignore someone, the way to do it isn't by calling them out on thread. @:-) Thank you.

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