Master Airport list of TSA $#%*
 

http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...ML/010390.html

In the spirit of the thread above, I thought I would start a new one that listed the just airport codes and two of most inconsistant TSA policies out there. I refer to them as

A) The multiple, totally useless, ID check. You know the procedure. Check id at the counter. Check id to get the security line. Check id to get one the plane routine.

B) The totally useless "Remove your shoes" rule. Either the "Everyone remove your shoes rule" or the even more useless "1 inch thick" rule. See above thread for details.

The above comments are a nice way of writing how I really feel... http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...orum/smile.gif

LAX

A) ID hell = Yes
B) Shoe hell = No

SFO

A) ID hell = No
B) Shoe hell = Yes

SDF

ID hell = no
Shoe hell = depends

Will update as I travel...

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"Give me Liberty or give me Death." - Patrick Henry

DEN is shoe hell.

LAX is ID hell?? No way. Only time you show it if you only carry on bags is at security checkpoint. If you check bags, then you show it when you check the bag as well.

Unfortunately, the tSA can't even maintain consistancy at a single checkpoint in any airport but, here are my entries:

BWI Concourse C
ID hell - no
Shoe hell - no

MIA
ID hell - yes
Shoe hell - no

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin

Not on United.

OKC

ID Hell - Yes once to check bag, once to get in TSA line, once to LEAVE TSA line (less than 30 feet from first check)

Shoe Hell - Yes with all types

ORF

ID Hell -- yes. I showed my ID and boarding pass to a TSA person before entering the checkpoint. Had to show the boarding pass to another person that was no more 15 feet away from the first (and in clear line of sight.)

Shoe Hell -- yes. (I saw them make a lady take off her sandals.)

I think the prize goes to HNL in March, when the metal detector "attendant" had to write her initials on each boarding card. The line took forever.

I'm yet to see the rationale behind having a Huntleigh rent-a-cop see my ID to enter the security queue only to have to present it two seconds later to a "real" TSA agent, then again at the metal detector. It's like something out of Saturday Night Live.

BDL (AA/DL checkpoint)
ID hell - yes
Shoe hell - no

LAS (Concourse D checkpoint)
ID hell - no
Shoe hell - yes (1" rule)

Within the past 3 weeks:

BUF
ID Hell: No
Shoe Hell: No

LAS
ID Hell: No
Shoe Hell: Yes

SMF
ID Hell: No
Shoe Hell: No

BNA
ID Hell: No
Shoe Hell: No

I made a comment along these lines at ORD once. Something like "So you guys are checking my ID again because you're afraid I might have somehow become a different person in the last 10 feet?"
They said it was "to make sure the first ID checker was doing their job."
Sad.

The week before last at OKC I had to show ID TWICE to get into the TSA line: once to the airport employee who marked up the boarding pass and again to the "nice" TSA man 5 feet later in order to be told to remove my shoes. And then yes, again to "exit" the security check area--as if the ID changed through the X-Ray machine.

Really?? I thought the no ID needed at the gate ruke applied to all of LAX. Interesting.. Is it only for AA at T4??