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MisterNice Feb 6, 2008 7:01 am
Originally Posted by Dresden (Post 9196718)
PHL - Terminal D. Nasty, dirty, loud barkers at the Entrance to the maze. . . and all the way through the checkpoint. This has to be what Dante had in mind . . .
PHL Term E aint much better. Crammed into a smelly sloping downward cattle chute, 4 ft long dirty tables, totally filthy frigid floors and the loudest mouth barkers outside of the South Philly Italian Market.

MisterNice

Wilbur Feb 6, 2008 7:20 am
NRT re-screening
 
Originally Posted by stupidhead (Post 9200060)
Narita rescreens transiting passengers. I was appalled. The only thing that made it better was that the Japanese screeners looked truly apologetic about inconveniencing the passengers, which we all know TSA is only happy to do.

How in the name of all that is holy do they think I'll obtain something dangerous? I just got off the plane. And yes, people who were getting off in Tokyo had to get screened too. I think.
The reason NRT re-screens you is so that they can take away the items you have with you that are permitted by the TSA but not in Japan. For instance, let's assume your four-year-old daughter has a new pair of two-inch, blunt Hello Kitty scissors given to her the week before by her grandmother. The Japanese security will need to take them away lest you suddenly decide to pose a threat on an ex-NRT flight and ensure that your daughter will spend the entire nine-hour flight to BKK weeping softly and moaning, "They took away my Hello Kitty scissors that Grammy gave me!"

Now you know.

Xyzzy Feb 6, 2008 7:43 am
Originally Posted by caspritz78 (Post 9200525)
This airport was built for the modern communist citizen and not for capitalists like us. ;)
The other thing to understand about SVO is that Russia actually has a real domestic terrorist problem, hence the X-ray upon entry to the terminal.


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