I haven’t flown commercial since 9-11. Won’t fly commercial till they do more than window dressing appearance of security .
.......TSA idiots and a nation that thinks our enemies respect rules and cavity searching wannabe gerbil’s in uniform is a major form of transportation in the sights of terrorist forever !
Just my opinion !
Notice the glass “jail cell” in the background of the first pic. I just recently flew and saw these in some of the airports (SLC I think). If you become a “person of interest” to the TSA, I think you go to jail without passing go or collecting $200 until they can clear you. All part of the frog boiling it seems to me.
Sometime about a year after 9/11, I had been called out on a reserve extra crew position and worked from LAX to HNL, then was scheduled to deadhead from HNL to OGG and work the Maui flight back to LA.
Over at the inter-island terminal gate for my flight to Maui, I was standing in the boarding line, and of course, being a crew member in uniform, was called out by the TSA for additional screening. (This was when they were doing random checks at the boarding gate.) They pulled me aside, and in full view of all other passengers, started going through my bags.
Then I got "wanded." The guy asked me to take off my shoes, which were just ballet slipper-type shoes, and he stuck his hands (no gloves) down inside my shoes. Where my feet had just been. Not to mention the "Ew" factor, but did he think there was really room for anything else down there?
Then the best part was when he asked me to lift up my feet so he could "wand" the bottoms of my feet. I am not kidding. I was wearing a dress with sheer stockings and he wanted to run the metal detector across the bottoms of my feet. My sheer-stockinged feet. I looked up at the passengers in line closest to me and just shook my head while he was doing this and they all started laughing. It was so supremely ridiculous it was actually funny.
Made me wonder if the guy just had a foot fetish or something.