Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security

Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by elif on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:00PM (#11614415)

Very similar story about MIA. I flew out of ATL with a pocket knife, and lost it at MIA on the way back. Also conversely, ATL wouldn't let me carry-on my pool cue and forced me to check it, but at YUL on the way back, they had no problem with it.

I think it's more of a roulette of circumstances more than a pattern of compliance/negligence, but it is curious to have 2 MIA data points.

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by semi-extrinsic on Monday May 02, 2016 @05:16PM (#11615707)

Flying out of London Gatwick, I once had a pack of torx driver bits confiscated "because they're dangerous tools, you see". But they failed to confiscate the 8" flathead screwdriver that was also in the bag, much to my amusement when I found it during unpacking.

I also flew Oslo->Lisbon->Sao Paolo->Rio de Janeiro->Lisbon->Oslo about five years ago with a 7" soldering iron in my hand luggage.

Then there was the time when I had my bag very thoroughly searched flying out of Geneva because of a highly suspicious loaf of bread.

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