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Did air travel get (gasp) easier? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just went through airport security and was quite surprised how easy it was (relatively speaking). Didn't have to go through a body scanner, didn't have to separate liquids, didn't have to take out my laptop, and my boarding pass wasn't even scanned. Did some rules change? Is their thoroughness related to terrorist threat levels?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

TSA changes up what they do each day. I just got back from a trip myself. On the way there, they didn't scan boarding passes. On the way back, they did. The guy even said they change things up to keep "the baddies" on their toes. Sometimes you don't take off your shoes, sometimes you do.
Pre-check helps tremendously to make that the norm. No need to unpack electronics, no shoes off. Only thing they still do occasionally is the full body scan when randomly selected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I was going to sign up for pre-check and then I realized I hated the idea. You have to let them do a full background check on you, give your fingerprints, register all of your information, and pay money just to be afforded the same decency that used to be standard. I hate everything it represents.