Haha, yeah... in the early '90s I was late to the airport flying out of Berlin (to Edinburgh), arriving like 10 minutes before the scheduled time... I ran like

Haha, yeah... in the early '90s I was late to the airport flying out of Berlin (to Edinburgh), arriving like 10 minutes before the scheduled time... I ran like nuts to the gate, and although they were clearly furious with me, and I got a ... very personal (but fast) ... security examination, and they still let me on the plane!! [Luckily I had no baggage to check.] That was admittedly pretty ridiculous, but they were generally a bit lax back then. I thought it was actually rather odd because there had been a number of incidents, like Lockerbie, and the gulf war was a thing, and people actually were sort of worried about airplane terrorism. Not worried enough I guess...