Gate searches -- still?!? AAARRRHHHGGG!! (merged)
Jan 29, 2019, 5:08 pm
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I agree on that - either everyone is subject to gate screening or no one is. That includes the TSOs doing the screening. It only takes one failure...
Feb 2, 2019, 1:42 pm
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Oddly enough, my RDU-DEN flight also had two TSA workers doing ID checks and searches.
Sep 5, 2019, 7:18 am
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Why, Yes. To detect passengers that attempt to smuggle babies: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/986235...a-philippines/
Sep 5, 2019, 7:21 am
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Why, Yes. To detect passengers that attempt to smuggle babies: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/986235...a-philippines/
Sep 5, 2019, 7:24 am
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It was a gate check. She had the baby out for the initial security and Xray. She hid it to go through immigration. Delta airlines caught it in the bag as they were doing a gate screening.
Sep 5, 2019, 7:36 am
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She tried to get through Ninoy Aquino International Airport security and immigration checks but police pounced as she sat in the departure area this morning.
Sep 5, 2019, 8:45 am
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Check out this video of a woman smuggling a baby out of the Philippines. She pops it out of her coat just like a Kangaroo; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tional-TV.html Here is the woman she bought the baby from: https://www.facebook.com/maricriscempron.dulap/friends?lst=1505172647%3A100035020098119%3A1567694 266&source_ref=pb_friends_tl
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Sep 5, 2019, 11:29 am
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Please keep in mind FlyerTalk Rule 5, and stay on topic, when posting here; that is gate searches.
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Apr 18, 2023, 4:38 am
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Just boarded eAAgle MCI-DCA and the “screeners” showed up at the gate to do searches. They checked the ID and BP of everybody (at least up to group 2 when I boarded) and pulled me aside to check my backpack. The “screener” took maybe a five second look by just unzipping two pockets and didn’t do much else. Pure security theater.