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It's a worldwide thing. EU airport security is even stricter and they're not going to let go now.
by whatwherewhy 4y ago
It's a worldwide thing. EU airport security is even stricter and they're not going to let go now.
- felipelemos 4y agoThe airport security in Europe and South America is not even close to how it is in USA.
- mcronce 4y agoMy sample size is two - one departing flight each from LHR and DUB - but they were way less painful experiences than any airport I've flown out of in the US.
- martopix 4y agoThe few times I was in the US I definitely did not have the feeling that EU is more strict.
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- ghaff 4y agoAside from the shoes and scanner thing (absent TSA-Pre) in the US, as someone who has traveled a lot in both Europe and the US, is seems pretty much a wash. I've had silly things like a bladeless corkscrew confiscated in Spain but I seem to have the same generally low rate of hand inspections etc. (usually related to having a bunch of cables/electronics jammed together in a bag) in both areas.
- blkhawk 4y agoYes so strict that we don't even do the shoe thing or the crotch grab thing here.
- stavros 4y agoWhile I agree that the US is stricter, the EU has gotten strict as well. There are millimeter-wave scanners in many airports (usually mandatory with an opt-out pat-down, but in some airports you have a chance to just go through the metal detectors), sometimes they make you take your shoes off, X-raying takes ages. The US is stricter only in the sense that the TSA is everywhere all the time, whereas in Europe it's only some places some of the time. At least in Europe you don't have some highschool dropout rifle through your luggage and leave your suitcase open, though (that's happened to me in the US). It used to be that you'd go through a metal detector and be done with it, and that's still the way it is in, for example, Greece. My local airport (second largest in the country, but still no SFO) gets you from the entrance to the gate in less than ten minutes. I don't know why we've accepted this bullshit. It's not as if some malicious actor couldn't just hit a train or bus instead and kill just as many people, yet we accept all this hassle and invasion of privacy for exactly zero benefit.
- whatwherewhy 4y ago> At least in Europe you don't have some highschool dropout rifle through your luggage and leave your suitcase open, though (that's happened to me in the US). No but the people putting the suitcase - that you had to take apart yourself - through the scanner will steal things from you - my credit card and powerbank went missing during the process this summer.
- stavros 4y agoWhat do you mean take apart? When taking your laptop out? I just close it again, that limits opportunistic theft by a lot (though you're the first person I hear having stuff stolen from).
- whatwherewhy 4y agoYeah, I took it out, closed the suitcase and send the boxes on their way. Then they forced me to open it up again and take out my camera, chargers and some cables etc too, I guess they took it during this.
- Max-q 4y agoIn most European countries this is done by private companies and they are really efficient. Rarely waiting time is more than 5-10 minutes in.