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Celebrities can pay to skip things, people try to smuggle things, false positives happen a lot and bottled water is expensive but - somehow - really profitable!
by misnome 7y ago
Celebrities can pay to skip things, people try to smuggle things, false positives happen a lot and bottled water is expensive but - somehow - really profitable!
“Secrets”
- lazyasciiart 7y agoAnyone can pay to skip things today! There's Clear, but there's also entirely separate security lines and entrances for first class passengers on some airlines.
- barney54 7y agoClear only verifies your identity. You still have to go through the same security screening as PreCheck.
- lazyasciiart 7y agoPreCheck itself is paying money for the privilege of not taking off your shoes.
- glandium 7y agoNot anyone, actually. Non US citizens can't buy Global Entry.
- lazyasciiart 7y ago"Well actually", they can if they have a greencard.
- Mediterraneo10 7y ago> bottled water is expensive but - somehow - really profitable! The first time I encountered liquids being banned from carry-on luggage – a few years before any ban came into force in North America or Europe – was in China. A bottle of spirits I had packed in my carry-on was confiscated as I passed through security. And yet as soon as I got through security, I arrived at a series of shops selling the exact same stuff that people could buy and take on the plane. At the time, I wondered if this was less a security fear, and more an intentional trick to drum up business for the airport’s own retail by forcing passengers to buy bottled water, gifts and souvenirs from them instead of a cheaper place in town.
- CPLX 7y agoI mean I agree the TSA theatre is complete and total nonsense, but the logic here is at least defensible. Those goods are inspected as well and they have a known supply chain. They’re not worried about bottled water, obviously, they’re worried about something bad that looks like bottled water carried in by you.
- diminoten 7y agoTSA theatre isn't complete and total nonsense. The illusion of safety has all kinds of secondary benefits, both offensively and defensively.
- chrisseaton 7y agoThe point is that the bottle in the shop is known secure. Your bottle could have been tampered with.
- Mediterraneo10 7y agoNotice that I wrote at the time. I am uncertain whether the Beijing airport rule, in place well before the 2006 ban in North America and the EU, was truly motivated by security fears as opposed to boosting airport retail sales. I had hoped that someone else might chime in with some proof that the Chinese authorities were already sincerely concerned then with liquids due to terrorist threats.
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