MCO security was ridiculous yesterday!!

[duffy]

OMG! The "standard" for nice is "they didn't hold my daughter captive as a prisoner" LOL!

Seriously, the TSA cannot STOP you from leaving the secured area in a case like this. I routinely leave the secured area. In spite of how they act the TSA are NOT prison gurards. They were not doing anything "nice" here they were doing thier jobs. Sad that we think that's an example of "how nice they are"

And if the TSA purchased food and "gave it away" my bet is on YOU paid for it. (AKA as your tax dollars) If an airport did it that's different but if the "servers" were wearing blue uniform shirts??? WHAT??? We can waste enough of our tax dollars for them to have time to buy and serve pizza. (Hint for debt reduction here! LOL!)

(And the rules are different at every airport?? That's true but just today a woman in the expert line was SCREAMING that "I paid $3 for this water bottle" GEE, that's one rule that the same EVERYWHERE and she still didn't get it right, but she's a "black diamond" flyer)

The point of my post was to demonstrate that smaller airports don't always mean arrogant employees. That's all.

 

[CPT Tripss]

OMG! The "standard" for nice is "they didn't hold my daughter captive as a prisoner" LOL!

Tell that to all the people detained in the glass cages at airports everyday for such "crimes" as wearing orthopedic shoes, using a urine collection bag, traveling with breast milk or opting out of the scanners that look under ones clothing.

 

[OrangeCountyCommuter]

She's 15, though, and perhaps wasn't traveling entirely independently.

The TSA could care less... the airline might have a different rule but the TSA doesn't really care how old you are when you want to leave the "secure" area. that's not thier problem!


I never said smaller airports have arrorgant employees (or if I did that's not what I meant)

Smaller airports have more arrogant TSA agents IMHO! The staff that works there are generally much nicer then the staff at Altanta once the TSA takes their "toll" to let you in

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

They let her go back through security to meet up with her dad. The 2 of them drove home-2 miles away. The delay turned into FOUR HOURS. Four hours later, my husband took her BACK to the airport. (We could have driven to Dulles by then!!)

I would never have left the airport. Delay times change often and the delay could have lessened, not lengthened. Then your daughter would have missed her flight. You got lucky.

IAD ranks too.

IAD is my home airport and I travel through there frequently. I have found the TSA agents there to be generally fine. Attitude counts!

 

[disfan07]

I would never have left the airport. Delay times change often and the delay could have lessened, not lengthened. Then your daughter would have missed her flight. You got lucky.



IAD is my home airport and I travel through there frequently. I have found the TSA agents there to be generally fine. Attitude counts!

I have found that the new security setup at IAD stinks though.
I thought it was bad before but the new setup is just a disaster. It's way too cramped IMHO.

I actually really like LAX. Each terminal has it's own security. We've never spent more than 20 mins (during christmas season) in security line at LAX.

 

[OrangeCountyCommuter]

Maybe it's just Delta, but I spent 30 minutes yesterday at LAX and NONE of us could figure out what they were doing.... each bag takes a good 5 minutes for the man to "examine" in detail. Honestly, if you can't decide in that long if it's a bomb then OPEN it up, but I am not "assured" by "we all spent 10 minutes looking at the thing and then just waved it through" LOL! (Seriously, the scanner looks and looks and looks and then one or two people come look and look and look... and then we send it on it's way. Everyone wanders off and "bag 2" gets the look and look and look, call over everyone, look and look and look.... and on to bag 3 and so forth. The first time I thought they were training someone new, but that was 3 years ago and .... it's still that way at the DL terminal!)

 

[CPT Tripss]

Don't you feel safer knowing that the Airport Security Screeners are so vigilant?

 

[bumbershoot]

Maybe it's just Delta, but I spent 30 minutes yesterday at LAX and NONE of us could figure out what they were doing.... each bag takes a good 5 minutes for the man to "examine" in detail. Honestly, if you can't decide in that long if it's a bomb then OPEN it up, but I am not "assured" by "we all spent 10 minutes looking at the thing and then just waved it through" LOL! (Seriously, the scanner looks and looks and looks and then one or two people come look and look and look... and then we send it on it's way. Everyone wanders off and "bag 2" gets the look and look and look, call over everyone, look and look and look.... and on to bag 3 and so forth. The first time I thought they were training someone new, but that was 3 years ago and .... it's still that way at the DL terminal!)

We haven't had that experience at LAX, but definitely Seattle and Baltimore! Though the main times it happened were *immediately* following 9/11, so I don't think that was "TSA" as an entity, right?

I know NOW that you aren't supposed to try to help them but I just kept saying "it's blah blah, it's in that zippered compartment".... Happened a year or so again with a non-ipod, funky-shaped, MP3 player. Just LOOK at the thing, people.... (on the other hand, who wants to stick their hand into a bag that has something scary-looking in it???)

 

[duffy]

I would never have left the airport. Delay times change often and the delay could have lessened, not lengthened. Then your daughter would have missed her flight. You got lucky.



IAD is my home airport and I travel through there frequently. I have found the TSA agents there to be generally fine. Attitude counts!

We live 2 miles away. This is a super-tiny airport, it has only ONE gate. And we have apps on our phones. All 3 of us kept checking the status. Heck, I was at work and I checked my phone and saw one delay before they did, and they were sitting right there by the counter!

 

[Lisa0620]

We've been through security there twice: the first time was easy, no lines. The second time was a total mob scene but we got lucky and were waived off to the right to a scanner without lines and got right through, I'm guessing it was the family line (?). Can someone share a practical strategy like "get in the furthest line to the right to be in position for the family line" or do they switch up where that is? Thanks.

 

[Dax]

Maybe I need to start selling my Employee Badge perks...LOL, for a nominal fee, I will get you through the employee line...