Posted on 11/23/2010 11:13:43 AM PST by null and void
How soon will the International Terminal be operational?
This whole article makes no sense...why does one have to go through tsa after customs? Never heard of this what’s the purpose?
The feds can’t target the people who commit 99%-plus of the terrorist actions, because Obama has pledged to stand with the Muslims against his fellow-countrymen, which he knows are just a bunch of bigots.
“You havent flow out of France, I see.”
Last time was before 911. But I don’t trust them after all the duplicity.
I thought so.
I sometimes fly international in/out of ORD and do the same thing. No TSA screening until you re-enter for your connecting flight.
I think the guy posting his experience is not being truthful
Like arriving at LHR for your connection to another international destination.
a) The writer of the experience made it up for theatrical purposes (play on all the doo-doo going on)
or
b) He misrepresented the situation (unintentionally or intentionally).
I vote for “a.” If the writer had not said he had no connecting flight, it would have been believable. Because he said he had no connecting flight, he sounds awfully like "a."
Bullet six of your post answers the real question. When you are done with Customs you have to transit a secure area to get to the exit of the airport. Even if you aren't connecting they have baggage service from Customs to the exit of the terminal.
This screening of a passenger that isn't connecting is more an issue with a weird terminal setup than anything else.
Domestically, I've made some amazingly short connections through that airport.
I think the writer of this alleged experience is inventing things.
I was emphazing it for the other readers. The key to the issue is that the 'exiting' passenger has free access inside the security area after having access to his checked bags.
Take a laminated copy of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights with you to the Airport.
Decline on basis of the 4th amendment.
Case law regarding illegal search and seizure.
And the newly found right to privacy codified in Rowe v Wade.
Plus I think it is a violation of hippa rights.
I take it that this means that your baggage leaves the secure area right after customs and you go to pick it up somewhere else?
See #58 and #68. At NKI, you are not dumped into a unsecured area. You have to go through the same portal that connecting passengers have to go through. Everyone is in the secure area but connecting passengers have to be re-screened. Since you are co-mingled, arriving passengers are also, by default, screened. This would be eliminated if they were 'dumped' into the unsecure area.
That's the problem. The NKI forces the arriving passenger to 're-enter' along with the connecting passengers.
That is interesting, as all my international travels for decades and never experienced an aiport situation like that.
6: Security Check - A security recheck is necessary because passengers are still in a secure area and have had access to their bags. Connecting passengers do not have to pass through any additional security beyond this point.
http://www.cvgairport.com/terminals/abroad.html
It is not a TSA power play. It is an airport specific requirement dictated by the layout. See my previous.
Good assumption.
I reassess my initial harsh assessment of the writers description of the event.
But the dude is not understanding the issue. He thinks he beat the 'TSA' policy. He did not and on his next flight if he thinks he will beat it, he will be in for a big surprise.
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