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Airport security is very similar (if more efficient) in non-US airports, so rent seeking can't be the whole explanation. As far as I know, in most countries sec
by DominikPeters 6y ago
Airport security is very similar (if more efficient) in non-US airports, so rent seeking can't be the whole explanation. As far as I know, in most countries security is done by private contractors and not a government agency.
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- danielheath 6y agoIIRC, if you want to fly through US airspace (say, to land an international flight in the US), the airport you are leaving has to comply with US airport security rules, so the rules are pretty standard everywhere.
- DominikPeters 6y agoMajor differences: no ID checks at security, and boarding passes aren’t scanned by humans in make-work jobs, no shoes to be taken off. If it was mostly the US imposing on the rest of the world, you would see separate security for US flights in airports whose layout allow it (and international flights to USA already have lots of annoying extras, like adversarial interviews at the gate (e.g. AA at LHR), and hand searches of cabin luggage).
- firebaze 6y agoFlying within EU, the security theater boils down to restricting fluids to individually less than 100 ml in hand luggage, having all metallic stuff removed from your body as far as possible in order to be screened and maintaining a certain posture while being body-scanned. Occasionally your shoes will be scanned. That's it, at least from my (quite frequent within-EU flying experience) perspective.
- tim333 6y agoAnd annoying though the liquids thing is I can see an argument if terrorist types are thinking nitroglycerin or anything along those lines. I'm glad they allow nail scissors again (in EU) - that was kind of dumb.