How does removing my shoes speed things up?
Jan 10, 2006, 10:53 am
#46
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Originally Posted by eyecue
I suppose that is one perspective on it. On one hand though you are saying that cargo is a hole, that hints at the fact that the other modes are pretty secure. Cargo screening has its own problems with associated logistics and costs.
Final answer on shoes is that the screener looks at them or doesnt look at them while they are on your feet and makes a recommendation to you about removing them. You don't have to take them off! However we do have to screen them! Therefore you get sent down for secondary screening UNLESS there are screeners available to take care of just swabbing the shoes. Provided of course that you dont alarm the WTMD. The way that it works is you get two chances at the WTMD for metal alarms. You get no second chances with the shoe removal. Come through with them on after being asked to send them through the x-ray and you are going to get the secondary.
Final answer on shoes is that the screener looks at them or doesnt look at them while they are on your feet and makes a recommendation to you about removing them. You don't have to take them off! However we do have to screen them! Therefore you get sent down for secondary screening UNLESS there are screeners available to take care of just swabbing the shoes. Provided of course that you dont alarm the WTMD. The way that it works is you get two chances at the WTMD for metal alarms. You get no second chances with the shoe removal. Come through with them on after being asked to send them through the x-ray and you are going to get the secondary.
Jan 10, 2006, 11:49 am
#47
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Originally Posted by LV702
How come then, SNA, OAK, FAT, PHX (Some of the time), JFK let me walk through, and not swab my non-profile shoes? Do they all do it wrong?
Jan 10, 2006, 12:26 pm
#48
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Originally Posted by eyecue
ITs a judgement call on the part of the screener. Plus some are lazy about it. We hear it all the time at DEN: "they didnt make me ..... at (insert name of airport here.) DEN is a shoe fetish airport and we do all shoes all the time.
Jan 10, 2006, 12:32 pm
#49
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Originally Posted by eyecue
ITs a judgement call on the part of the screener. Plus some are lazy about it. We hear it all the time at DEN: "they didnt make me ..... at (insert name of airport here.) DEN is a shoe fetish airport and we do all shoes all the time.
Moronic, simply moronic.
Jan 10, 2006, 5:52 pm
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Originally Posted by eyecue
ITs a judgement call on the part of the screener. Plus some are lazy about it. We hear it all the time at DEN: "they didnt make me ..... at (insert name of airport here.) DEN is a shoe fetish airport and we do all shoes all the time.