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I just landed in St. Louis a few hours ago from Anchorage. The ANC airport had a 45 minute security delay in which the only person who knew how to run the ETD (explosives detector)was 30 mins late for work. The entire concourse was shut down and the line went from the American ticket counter all the way down to the United counter. If you are not familiar with ANC,thats about 1000 yards. The security at the airports should be a sitcom. As an airline employee,I abhor it,and will actively be railing about it,privately and publicly. In an unrelated coincidence, Senator Kit Bond was on board. I was too tired after taking a 6 and a half hour red eye to remind him that I voted for him and the airport security in the US is an absolute joke. How many security agents were jacking up an 80 year old woman from Tulsa when this happened?

I guess that some airlines and airports are worse than 2 years ago. SFO/LAX and particuliarly US were nightmares two years ago.

My wife flew from Sac to MidWay in late Feb. this year on SW. Apparently SW has done a lot of security stuff with their computers re tickets, people buying the tickets, luggage matching and other things that some other big airlines haven't done. That makes it faster to get on board, yet if there is a problem they will move fast and on that individual and suspected luggage. She had zero problems and the planes took off on time. One had a problem landing at Midway due to snow.

We found out that even UA out and to Sacramento if the flight didn't originate in SFO or LAX was usually on time and had pleasant cabin crews.

Sounds like a nightmare at ANC.