Okay I fly in from the EU to the East coast at times. I fly in from Ireland to the United States (usually places like boston) and then connect down to Orlando.
Well when I'm in my connecting airport what really pains the crap out of me is how many times they want to check your shoes for bombs and your passport and tickets! I had 2 hours to connect and they still had to page me for final boarding - when all I was doing was transferring from concourse A to concourse C or something like it.
They must have checked me 3 times and between each location there was literally NO WAY that I could have had access to an outside element to receive a bomb or sneak into anything: you basically go through baggage-> customs -> checkpoint1 -> a long, long never ending hall of doom -> checkpoint2 -> another enclosed hallway -> checkpoint3
explain this to me?
2007-10-02 09:46:31 · 7 answers · asked by Overheal 4 in Travel ➔ Air Travel
Once you leave the plane you enter the terminal and are in a non-secure area. Now it should be considered a secure area, because anyone entering it has to be searched. However, no other country is going to want to take the responsibility of some other nation making a security mistake. So they will search you again when you change nations.
The Pan Am Flight, Flight 103, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103) was destroyed by a bomb that was probably smuggled on board in Germany. It was on its way to JFK in New York, and it had passed through German security and British Security. Still it was carrying a bomb and each country shared part of the blame. Because of this the US is very paranoid about incoming flights.
Furthermore you are coming from Ireland, an area of known terrorists activity; that is only true of Northern Ireland and Ireland itself is a separate nation, but you are too close to Northern Ireland to take the chance. So far groups like Hamas and Al-Quadi have not formed alliances with the old terrorist groups of Northern Ireland, but they did use some of the same training camps in Libya so an alliance is possible.
Is it reasonable, no; unless the security at one airpoint is not perfect and we always know security is not perfect.
2007-10-02 09:58:29 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2007-10-02 16:49:01 · answer #2 · answered by Marie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is a tricky question because these decisons are on a airport to airport basis. For example, while flying fron Frankfurt, you would have to go through 3 security screening. They scan your checked bags at time of check-in. Then you go through security and two sets of passport checks. If you are flying to certain areas (eastern Europe) you will have to go through security again!!
It's security measures. There is no real rhyme or reason to the screening process. If you are flying from Ireland to the US, in most cases you will clear immigration, pick up your bags then clear customs with your bags. Bags will then be taken and sent to your flight. Until then you will have to go through security just that last time. If you are connecting (unless connecting to another country) you should not have to clear security.
I hope this helps....
You will learn the tricks of the different airports when you begin to travel alot more!
2007-10-02 17:24:42 · answer #3 · answered by Gabrielle R 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Toronto terminal 3 after passing though security half way down the secure side of the departure area there was this little hittler wanting to check everyone's tickets/boarding passes etc. going in both directions. I saw this "official" hastle a woman who wanted to use the washrooms that were on the other side of the line. She had to go back and get her papers before she was allowed to pass.
Folks airport security in Canada and the US is a joke and it is getting worse at least in Europe they have armed police officers at the security checkpoints not some rent a cop making minimum wage. My business takes me to many airports behind the scenes and nobody questions me why I'm in certian areas the last time I was asked for my pass I was exiting a secure area and my minder told the guy I was with him and it was ok
2007-10-02 18:41:23 · answer #4 · answered by Dangermanmi6 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I feel the same way sometimes. But, I would rather them check me 50 times for a bomb, than to let one person with a bomb through because they were rushed. Unfortunately, that's the price we have to pay to live in a safe country.
2007-10-02 16:51:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
By the sound of it you were at Newark and thus you were landside after customs, not airside. Once landside, other people enter the system and nobody knows whether you've just come off another flight or walked in off the street. So you get checked again.
2007-10-02 18:19:48 · answer #6 · answered by Geoff M 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
September 11, 2001.
Ring a bell???
2007-10-02 17:07:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋