Do I Need the "Security Interview" with no checked luggage (to TLV)?
Sep 13, 2014, 11:22 am
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Do I Need the "Security Interview" with no checked luggage (to TLV)?
Flying from EWR, doing express check-in, and have no checked luggage whatsoever.
Can I head straight to security and the gate from there, or do I need the pre-check in security interview?
(I know when departing TLV I can check-in online and head straight to security, right lane, but wondering if it's the same in reverse.)
Thanks and shavua tov everyone!
Can I head straight to security and the gate from there, or do I need the pre-check in security interview?
(I know when departing TLV I can check-in online and head straight to security, right lane, but wondering if it's the same in reverse.)
Thanks and shavua tov everyone!
Sep 13, 2014, 12:08 pm
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You can go straight to TSA security.
At the gate, the "LY Security" will give you the usual third degree. Works this way all the time, especially when people connect from elsewhere to an LY flight and never leave the airside.
At the gate, the "LY Security" will give you the usual third degree. Works this way all the time, especially when people connect from elsewhere to an LY flight and never leave the airside.
Sep 13, 2014, 5:54 pm
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I've connected to LY flights in the past and never experienced the third degree. In fact, I never had a bad experience with EL AL security; each time they were either polite or they had a neutral attitude; but never rude or hostile as people have reported them to be.
Sep 14, 2014, 12:56 am
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Sep 21, 2014, 3:08 am
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Is this true of any LY flight from anywhere to TLV? I fly with hand luggage only almost all the time and would love it if I could always do my security check at the gate without standing in line with the bag checkers, but don't remember seeing a lot of security folks at the gates. I liked that at ZRH it was all at the gate.
Sep 21, 2014, 8:51 am
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Is this true of any LY flight from anywhere to TLV? I fly with hand luggage only almost all the time and would love it if I could always do my security check at the gate without standing in line with the bag checkers, but don't remember seeing a lot of security folks at the gates. I liked that at ZRH it was all at the gate.
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I believe that everywhere else if you arrive at the gate they won't send you to the check-in.
You can also do this if you have checked luggage
Sep 23, 2014, 12:36 pm
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Is this true of any LY flight from anywhere to TLV? I fly with hand luggage only almost all the time and would love it if I could always do my security check at the gate without standing in line with the bag checkers, but don't remember seeing a lot of security folks at the gates. I liked that at ZRH it was all at the gate.
Jun 18, 2015, 6:44 am
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I had it a while ago from KBP too - passed regular security few before flight with only H-Luggage, and by gate Elal rep asks regular security Q's. We actually got called over the microphone "to come to gate to do Bitachon".