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I don't fly much, but I've never spent more than 10 minutes waiting to be screened, 5 actually being screened. But it's really highly variable, and the downside
by superuser2 11y ago
I don't fly much, but I've never spent more than 10 minutes waiting to be screened, 5 actually being screened. But it's really highly variable, and the downside to missing a flight is very high, so most people show up really early regardless.
I gather it can be really bad at peak times.
- astrodust 11y agoThe security lines here, except very early in the morning, are typically 40 minutes, minimum. It's atrocious. The whole charade that taking off your shoes somehow makes people safer is insulting.
- anovikov 11y agoIn Europe they ask you to take off shoes only if they are suspecting something. Like, for <5% of people. I had an unlucky pair of shoes with steel parts which always beeped on the screening machine, so they always asked to take them off, but in no other case.