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Originally Posted by KillerK
Usually I don't agree with you, but you are pretty much right on this.
From what I remember flying, they always xray'd your shit and you walked thru a metal detector. You do have to take your shoes off and stand in that big ass machine that owns you with cancer.
I think any flights that will land on US soil they require all that bs shit. But if you fly in the same countrys I dont think they require a assrape. (some of the europe people could speak up)
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Actually no...If any of you notice, the Security set ups at airports are all fairly new. Most of them are almost awkward because they weren't there when the airport was built.
Pre-911 you could take someone to the airport and walk all the way to the gate with them and say goodbye as they boarded their plane.
And when you picked someone up, you met them as they walked in off the plane in the terminal.
Yes, our checked luggage was searched sometimes (and I hate that because they steal anything of value). But walking through metal detectors and xray machines and being randomly frisked NEVER happened at any airport I flew out of pre-911.
I lived in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale in the 1980's and flew out of both those airports many times.
Starting in the 1990's the Atlanta airport was my airport as I moved to Atlanta and then South Carolina. (Atlanta is the busiest airport in the world...I think I would have noticed getting searched)
As recently as 2000 I picked up Darby (formerly of Lavish Cash) at GSP airport in South Carolina when he flew in for a business meeting from California. I waited for him at the gate. I went through ZERO security to walk up to that gate and pick him up.