Strip search? Gun in a bag? Excessive Jewels? 2 sets of twins with strollers ahead of you? :o
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Strip search? Gun in a bag? Excessive Jewels? 2 sets of twins with strollers ahead of you? :o
When I deal with them myself. They confiscated me a perfectly good bottle of old spice after shave. I wanted to rock her @*&#$!! world after that.
I always follow the 3 oz rule for toiletries and I do carry-on only. I utilize precheck when I can so I don't get confiscations because I pay attention to restrictions.
Only "weird" thing was when I took my mom's ashes to South Africa. TSA "agent" freaked out when I told her what the powdery substance in my bag was. All they had to do was rescan and pass me thru. I presented them at ATL the next day by putting them in a small bin--nobody gave a rodent's derriere...Needless to say, a little bit of my mom resides in South Africa forever!
Forgot I had a knife in my work bag that I took to PWM a few weeks ago, it took 3 people to find where it was at.
Leaving Orlando they have a non-family line and of course there was a family with teen girls, no problem until one was identified as a family friend and they did
not have a document for her to travel with them.
They were turned away and did not make their flight.
When you say no boarding pass, do you mean no ID, boarding pass, or something totally different saying she's allowed to travel with this family? Because if you have the first two, they really shouldn't need anything else. Someone definitely screwed that one up if I'm reading this right.
If they were going out of the country, the minor needed a notarized letter from her parent(s) stating it was okay and the names of the "guardians" for this trip. We had to do it with Boss' kids.
I had to read that again but I agree with mrs767er - they must have been going out of the country. That letter of consent (something I had to do even for my own kids when I took them to Mexico without my husband) is required by a lot of countries. No letter, no travel.
Domestically, if the teen is under 18 they can go through TSA with no id at all.
I had fun twice in Egypt a few years ago. Going through Customs inbound, they thought the little Delta water was a grenade. Then on the outbound they thought I had scissors in my backpack (I saw the Xray image, and the way my headphone cord was sitting, it looked just like loopy handled medical scissors). I had to convince them it was just an anomaly and move stuff around and run it through a couple more times.
This was all after they wouldn't even let me in the terminal as I didn't have a ticket. I ended up sneaking in behind a group of Americans about my age.
Of course the worst security situation I've ever seen put me on conference calls and meetings in the board room of a major intl airport........that's as far as I'll go w/ that one!