Extra security at Qantas boarding gate for USA Flights

[Flyboi420]

Flying to DFW on QF21 and there’s extra security at the boarding gate for some reason double checking passports.

What is this about is it a route specific thing or Qantas wide?

 

[RichardMEL]

Flying to DFW on QF21 and there’s extra security at the boarding gate for some reason double checking passports.

What is this about is it a route specific thing or Qantas wide?

TSA require extra checks for USA inbound flights and have for years.

 

[justinbrett]

Flying to DFW on QF21 and there’s extra security at the boarding gate for some reason double checking passports.

What is this about is it a route specific thing or Qantas wide?

That sounds normal. They're checking for that little sticker where you get asked why you're travelling to the US / if you packed your own bag etc. They check these at SYD to make sure connecting pax have been asked,.

 

[blackcat20]

Flying to DFW on QF21 and there’s extra security at the boarding gate for some reason double checking passports.

What is this about is it a route specific thing or Qantas wide?

That's a US thing.

 

[Himeno]

Flying to DFW on QF21 and there’s extra security at the boarding gate for some reason double checking passports.

What is this about is it a route specific thing or Qantas wide?

It's a US thing.
Sercuity questions for everyone on US bound flights. It used to just be from selected departure points. Trump made it from everywhere.

They have a 2nd check at the gate to get anyone who connected and didn't answer the questions prior to check in.

QF has people at the SYD transfer bus to check US bound people during peak times.

 

[p--and--t]

Flying to DFW on QF21 and there’s extra security at the boarding gate for some reason double checking passports.

What is this about is it a route specific thing or Qantas wide?

It's not QF specific, it's any airline flying internationally to the US.

 

[DC3]

Flying to DFW on QF21 and there’s extra security at the boarding gate for some reason double checking passports.

What is this about is it a route specific thing or Qantas wide?

Normal. Maybe you don’t get out much?

 

[SYD]

It's not QF specific, it's any airline flying internationally to the US.

and beware the dreaded SSSS and the sound of rubber gloves snapping…

 

[tdimdad]

Normal. Maybe you don’t get out much?

Only 193 other countries to travel to. A small selection but some of us tend to gravitate to those.

 

[33kft]

and beware the dreaded SSSS and the sound of rubber gloves snapping…

I did a *A round the world with a group of (at the time, young) friends a few years after 9/11 with a heavy amount of North American legs and we got SSSS'ed on every leg consistently, with the net result being a lot of missed flights that United reissued us BPs for later flights for, most of the time bumped to PE for whatever reason. Not sure it would work out that way today but we figured at the time we'd lost some and won some.

 

[Daver6]

Any idea why QF have an extra security check at DEL for QF70? To enter the gate lounge you need to put your bag though another x-ray machine (it's the old school ones) and you can leave everything in your bag. There's also an incredibly half coughd walk through a metal detector. I beeped. I beeped again when wanded but nothing actually checked.

 

[AIRwin]

Any idea why QF have an extra security check at DEL for QF70? To enter the gate lounge you need to put your bag though another x-ray machine (it's the old school ones) and you can leave everything in your bag.

LAGs?

 

[tomlee1986]

Thats US requirements - not a qantas matter

 

[DC3]

Flying to DFW on QF21 and there’s extra security at the boarding gate for some reason double checking passports.

Good to hear that it’s still happening. US here we come

 

[Daver6]

LAGs?

Given there was no need to take LAGs out of ones bag prior to screening, I doubt it. It was a basic x-ray machine too. My toiletries, while all under the LAGs limit, were packed away in my toiletry bag so I can't see how they could have been checking that. It really seemed like just a bit more red tape.

 

[KSC]

I got the SSSS departing from Sydney to Honolulu. I had an extra check at the boarding gate. Turned out to be a blessing as it put me in the front boarding line.

 

[JohnM]

Any idea why QF have an extra security check at DEL for QF70? To enter the gate lounge you need to put your bag though another x-ray machine (it's the old school ones) and you can leave everything in your bag. There's also an incredibly half coughd walk through a metal detector. I beeped. I beeped again when wanded but nothing actually checked.

It's just you, fella - just you. They know a dodgy smart@rse when they see one.

 

[VHOEJ]

It is a US requirement so it applies to all airlines. Ridiculous, particularly for anyone who has the SSSS (I had it recently) - no benefit going to the front of the line, they checked me, kept me in thier small 'pen' area and I had to plead with them to let me board.

I am genuinely curious if they actually find anything or deny anyone boarding because the whole thing is a waste of time.

 

[dajop]

Maybe my memory is fading as I get older, but I can't remember anything remarkable or special at the gate on my two post-COVID journeys to the US (both SQ, 1 ex-SIN and 1 ex-FRA). But maybe because there's often a passport check on entry to security (at gate) anyway at SIN, so I wouldn't notice.

 

[Himeno]

Maybe my memory is fading as I get older, but I can't remember anything remarkable or special at the gate on my two post-COVID journeys to the US (both SQ, 1 ex-SIN and 1 ex-FRA). But maybe because there's often a passport check on entry to security (at gate) anyway at SIN, so I wouldn't notice.

They normally do the security questions at check in. US based airlines will have someone at the entrance to the check in queue and do the questions before you are allowed into the queue.
The questions are usually low key that many people might not even notice that they are security questions. They then put a sticker to say you've cleared the check, either on the boarding pass or on your passport. The security at the gate is looking for that sticker, on things that are checked at the gate anyway, so again most people won't notice what's happening.