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Air travel sucks and would be easy to make better

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Air travel sucks and would be easy to make better

from JoeUser Forums

Since 9/11, I don’t travel nearly as much as I used to.  It’s not because I worry about terrorists or that the cost has changed. It’s because air travel has become such a hassle.

If you travel once or twice a year, the process for getting from the terminal to the airplane may not be that big of a deal.  But if you’re a frequent traveler, it’s a royal pain.

For me, the biggest problem is airport security. I absolutely hate having to take off my shoes and having to take my laptop out of my laptop bag.  While they have recently introduced special laptop bags for airports, they are so impractical as to be useless.

Would it really be that hard to come up with a way so that people don’t have to take off their shoes or put all their stuff into tons of little trays in order to get through security?  One has to wonder how many billions of dollars are lost each year because of the accumulated decrease in air travel by people like me.

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top

Every time I leave Israel security personnel at Ben Gurion question me for an hour.

I don't mind. I know why they are doing it and it's good practive for me speaking Hebrew.

Other than that security in Tel Aviv is less annoying than in most places. They are not obsessed with belts and shoes or fluids. A can of deodorant travelled with me from Tel Aviv via Amsterdam to Dublin and was finally caught half a year later in Hamburg.

One time I arrived in Heathrow from Tel Aviv and was trying to catch my flight to Dublin. I had two hours. I didn't make it. Heathrow security thought that terrorists are most likely to arrive from Tel Aviv and therefor did lots of long security checks on transfers arriving from Tel Aviv continuing to Dublin, i.e. me. I would have thought that any terrorist arriving from Tel Aviv in Heathrow would already have missed his chance!

A few weeks ago security personell in Hamburg, always trying to avoid racial profiling accusations by avoiding Muslims like the pest, picked me for a bag search event. They had me remove every single item from my carry-on and name it. That went well for a while until I opened a small pocket compartment, removed a book from it and said "prayer book". At that point they apparently realised that I might be a Muslim and they immediately ended the search and let me go. (I am not a Muslim and it was a Hebrew prayer book I carry with.)

All-in-all I find those security checks amusing. But I do think that Saudi-Arabia should pay for them.

After all, they paid large amounts of money to the people who made them necessary, and why should they be excused from from fixing what they broke?

 

Reply #27 from Stardock Forums Top

They need to look at the passenger manifest and see if there are any Islamic people on board. If theres none... were all safe no matter what we're carrying.

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Reply #28 from Demigod Forums Top

Better google Lockerbee if you are serious ;)

Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top

Note that this was stopped by passengers on the plane that noticed suspicious activity and took appropriate action and not by any sort of screening by the TSA.
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Yes - some people on a leisure trip they paid for had to save their asses from being blown up.

That is EXACTLY why they have to check your shoes - so you don't pay for a survival horror with one life only, but for a safe trip from A to B.

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