Is "remove all electronics" at TSA security back?
Mar 25, 2008 | 10:33 pm
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Mar 26, 2008 | 12:05 am
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The 60+ gates, around 2:00. I went through the "expert" lane, which appeared to be shared by Clear. None of the lanes had much of a line, but the one I when through was completely empty when I got there, from ID to shoes back on was under two minutes.
Too bad there is no way we can know who you are so we can say "hi" when we are going through, but this is too public a forum to give any identifying info.
Too bad there is no way we can know who you are so we can say "hi" when we are going through, but this is too public a forum to give any identifying info.
Mar 26, 2008 | 8:58 am
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The 60+ gates, around 2:00. I went through the "expert" lane, which appeared to be shared by Clear. None of the lanes had much of a line, but the one I when through was completely empty when I got there, from ID to shoes back on was under two minutes.
Too bad there is no way we can know who you are so we can say "hi" when we are going through, but this is too public a forum to give any identifying info.
Too bad there is no way we can know who you are so we can say "hi" when we are going through, but this is too public a forum to give any identifying info.
Mar 27, 2008 | 2:45 pm
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Lax
At UA's elite line today, the TSA barker was yelling at everyone to "put all electronics in a separate bin." Everyone ignored her. I pulled out my laptop, but left my large amounts of electronics in my computer bag. It went through x-ray without a pause -- no secondary.
Mar 27, 2008 | 2:58 pm
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I've mostly heard "place major electronics in a separate bin."
Which is to say, they don't care about your ipod, your phone, your pocket digital camera. But they do care about your laptop, your video camera, your almost-laptop-sized portable DVD player, or if you're me, the network router and portable printer you've got in your rollaboard.
Of course, at my home airport, I get to security and say "okay, I've got a printer, a network router, a full DSLR setup, another camera and all the associated cables in here... do you need me to take them out?" and they say "nah, we'll send it through and see if we can tell what's what." Gotta love those folks. ^
Which is to say, they don't care about your ipod, your phone, your pocket digital camera. But they do care about your laptop, your video camera, your almost-laptop-sized portable DVD player, or if you're me, the network router and portable printer you've got in your rollaboard.
Of course, at my home airport, I get to security and say "okay, I've got a printer, a network router, a full DSLR setup, another camera and all the associated cables in here... do you need me to take them out?" and they say "nah, we'll send it through and see if we can tell what's what." Gotta love those folks. ^
Mar 27, 2008 | 3:02 pm
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I've mostly heard "place major electronics in a separate bin."
Which is to say, they don't care about your ipod, your phone, your pocket digital camera. But they do care about your laptop, your video camera, your almost-laptop-sized portable DVD player, or if you're me, the network router and portable printer you've got in your rollaboard.
Of course, at my home airport, I get to security and say "okay, I've got a printer, a network router, a full DSLR setup, another camera and all the associated cables in here... do you need me to take them out?" and they say "nah, we'll send it through and see if we can tell what's what." Gotta love those folks. ^
Which is to say, they don't care about your ipod, your phone, your pocket digital camera. But they do care about your laptop, your video camera, your almost-laptop-sized portable DVD player, or if you're me, the network router and portable printer you've got in your rollaboard.
Of course, at my home airport, I get to security and say "okay, I've got a printer, a network router, a full DSLR setup, another camera and all the associated cables in here... do you need me to take them out?" and they say "nah, we'll send it through and see if we can tell what's what." Gotta love those folks. ^
Mar 27, 2008 | 3:04 pm
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I think practice is back. This happened to the guy in front of me and the guy behind me at terminal A in PHL on Monday night. The first bag was not being re-sceened, it was going through for the first time. The TSAer informed the FF ahead of me to take out all electronics as he approached the belt. The TSAer ignored me and told the guy behind to put away his reise pass (a German gentleman who seemed to think that it TSA needed to see it again) and take out all his electronics. There was no way the TSAer was going to help either pax to re-pack their bags.
May 30, 2008 | 11:37 am
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now you think the woman who cut the line to the belt right in front of me (complete with the "bump 'n shove") would know better.....didn't know that she had take her laptop out
. her response to the tso..."i fly ll the time and never have to take it out" (yeah, right lady and it was nice to see you in e- on our ted flight to den....some people should be put on the know fly list).
May 30, 2008 | 6:39 pm
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Just went through T6 at LAX. Laptop out, everything else (scanner, 5,235 cables, chargers, iPod, headphones, power supplies, hubs, mouse, etc.) in. No problems (and, as a bonus, nice, efficient, good-humored TSOs).