Security questioning at gate in AMS
Apr 6, 2007 | 7:09 am
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Professional my ...... What a waste of resources. They manage without this crap at FRA, CPH, LHR. And it predates 2001, so there is not even that lame excuse.
Apr 6, 2007 | 7:13 am
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Apr 6, 2007 | 7:16 am
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By the way, and on-topic, isn't those security people in Amsterdam put there by US gov't? I do not like Schipol at all, so I try to avoid it, but i think i remember US security on gates for flights to the US.
When flying from other airports, I guess the airline is hiring their own security people for extra-screening of pax flying to the US.
When flying from other airports, I guess the airline is hiring their own security people for extra-screening of pax flying to the US.
Personally, I don't enjoy paying to have my time wasted with stupid questions from "security", "security" that provides no security and needs a miracle to even "get lucky".
Apr 6, 2007 | 7:44 am
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Apr 6, 2007 | 12:29 pm
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THERE we go. Some posters in the various contact lens threads have insisted screeners have taken a common-sense attitude towards their 120 ml of solution even when Europe doesn't have a medical exception (and nothing under 120 ml is commercially available). One more proof that paranoia is justified.
Apr 7, 2007 | 7:01 am
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My college roommate, a surgeon, not prone to exaggeration, and a frequent world traveler, said that he will not go through Amsterdam again.
He felt that their questioning was almost hostile in nature, and that their frisking at the gate was "very intimate."
This was for a KLM (not NW) flight from Schipol to Boston earlier this year.
I'd like to think that his experience was an exception and not routine.
He felt that their questioning was almost hostile in nature, and that their frisking at the gate was "very intimate."
This was for a KLM (not NW) flight from Schipol to Boston earlier this year.
I'd like to think that his experience was an exception and not routine.
Apr 7, 2007 | 7:21 am
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I have never been frisked at AMS in over 20 trips and the questioning is always quick and professional. FWIW I always remove the computer and shoes. At LHR and LGW I get frisked 100% using the same drill.
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Apr 7, 2007 | 7:25 am
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My college roommate, a surgeon, not prone to exaggeration, and a frequent world traveler, said that he will not go through Amsterdam again.
He felt that their questioning was almost hostile in nature, and that their frisking at the gate was "very intimate."
This was for a KLM (not NW) flight from Schipol to Boston earlier this year.
I'd like to think that his experience was an exception and not routine.
He felt that their questioning was almost hostile in nature, and that their frisking at the gate was "very intimate."
This was for a KLM (not NW) flight from Schipol to Boston earlier this year.
I'd like to think that his experience was an exception and not routine.
Apr 7, 2007 | 9:46 am
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This is your personal opinion and you are entitled to it. But IMHO the KLM lounges in AMS beat pretty much any DL lounge I have seen except the business elite lounge in ATL.
Apr 7, 2007 | 9:54 am
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That's not saying a whole lot for the KLM lounges -- sort of akin to comparing rotten apples to rotten pears. That noted, my complaints about the KLM lounges have declined since they started providing me shower and internet access at no charge a few months back.
Apr 7, 2007 | 10:09 am
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Let him try that on me. It would be a day he would never forget.
Apr 7, 2007 | 2:16 pm
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Apr 7, 2007 | 2:20 pm
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Although we are all sick of people asking us that question, there really is a reason for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nezar_Hindawi
Apr 7, 2007 | 2:21 pm
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Although we are all sick of people asking us that question, there really is a reason for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nezar_Hindawi
That's not security, it's CYA.
Apr 7, 2007 | 9:28 pm
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I'm well aware of that incident but the question policy epitomizes just how dull headed airport security is these days. They decide to have this policy, ignoring everything else equally likely that could happen, and target this one thing just because it did happen.
That's not security, it's CYA.
That's not security, it's CYA.