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On Friday, I flew out of MEL on QF93 (A380) and the queue at the second security was crazy.
Security were checking every passengers hand baggage, and patting them down.
We were due to leave at 11.10, and at 11.20 the queues still had over 100 people standing there.
The little group around me started taking "bets" on when we would leave, when a security guy came over and removed the barricades and everyone who was left just surged forward in a rush and ended up getting no security checks.
They were even making boarding calls for row 80 and up, for the flight while we were in the security queue.
We ended up leaving around 11.40am and were late into LAX.
Why do they not call passengers sooner for the flights, or better still, why not put more security staff on the tables, and put a rocket under them to move quicker.
In Feb this year, my wife and I flew to LAX from SYD and they did random full searches just before the gate - she got searched, I didn't. I just do not understand where the consistency is with the second searches.
By the way, there is lots on the TV news over here about "new security checks at airports", but I think its just about the full body scans - I'm already over the US news services and drug ads!
Security were checking every passengers hand baggage, and patting them down.
We were due to leave at 11.10, and at 11.20 the queues still had over 100 people standing there.
The little group around me started taking "bets" on when we would leave, when a security guy came over and removed the barricades and everyone who was left just surged forward in a rush and ended up getting no security checks.
They were even making boarding calls for row 80 and up, for the flight while we were in the security queue.
We ended up leaving around 11.40am and were late into LAX.
Why do they not call passengers sooner for the flights, or better still, why not put more security staff on the tables, and put a rocket under them to move quicker.
In Feb this year, my wife and I flew to LAX from SYD and they did random full searches just before the gate - she got searched, I didn't. I just do not understand where the consistency is with the second searches.
By the way, there is lots on the TV news over here about "new security checks at airports", but I think its just about the full body scans - I'm already over the US news services and drug ads!