My daughter flew to and from with her Classic on her keys with no detection of it.
The world does progress slowly return to its senses sometimes!
FTFY. In all seriousness, I'm glad you didn't lose your knife. Was it in your checked baggage or your carry-on? Here in the States, as long as it's in your checked baggage, you're usually okay.
My Zippo got confiscated one time, but you can take a Bic lighter with you.
Whew, that was a close one.
I was once told that a Zippo with its factory safety label intact isn't allowed on a commercial aircraft. Many such laws and regulations make no sense to me.
In OZtrailya they make out that you are a terrorist and kick up a major stink about a pair of nail clippers.Id hate to imagine what would happen if they actually found a knife.They love to act all tough when its simply some poor sod who forgot.We did have a murder committed in a Sydney airport a few years ago.But every security person was running the other way in fear, rather than actually doing anything.I guess its all about perspective.
They weren't running from a murderer, they were running towards a terrorist plot they foiled when one of our members attempted to wear his Tread on a plane. Def
There's no reason for the government to profit from security theater.
When it's not even filled?
I agree. Yet on the same token, I'd like to see what's on offer when those seizures are auctioned. Lots of chaff to separate out of little wheat, I'd imagine.Yes. That's what I was told, anyway. Never mind that five steps are required to get a new Zippo to so much as produce a spark. I'm sure that in the States, more than a few of them are shipped at least in part via aircraft anyway.
The funny thing about Australian airport security.Is that many of them are criminals and have been caught smuggling and engaging in other nefarious activities.Many don't speak English and are employed on a cheapest basis, usually through some obscure and semi-legal recruitment firm.The other concern is that many come from countries that are well known for terrorist activities with background checks being, at best, flexible. My wife was stopped by there morons when she set off the metal detector.She has artificial knees and has documentation to support this fact.But Mr Australian security knew better, sending her off for further checking, when I objected I was threatened by this little Hitler who said he would have me arrested.He grabbed my arm resulting in his arm being locked and me whispering in his ear, "one step from heaven buddy".All was resolved when a sensible security person observed the incident and quietly spoke to us.A simple wave of a metal stick around my wife's knees resolved the matter.Australian airport security is lax, stupidly enforced and run by morons.
Well, first off, most airline security personnel fit that profile, at least in most places I have been.Secondly, you are very lucky that you were not penalized for arguing, let alone the altercation. On this side of the pond people are labeled as belligerent and placed on No Fly lists for simply disagreeing with airline security.I would imagine that, at least in Canada and likely the US, you would have spent at least a few hours in jail while they determined whether or not to press charges against you. Whether they did or not, at the very least you would have missed your flight and not be allowed to board another, possibly ever.Def
That's more or less the case in Australia too...at least at the major airports. The airport security don't have much of a sense of humour, and there's usually a few Federal Police and Border Force cronies lurking around as well.Perhaps at some of the regional airstrips where the King Airs fly and the "Terminal" consists of a eight-by-eight shed with a bench seat in it you might get away with that sort of thing....
Only in Australia (especially Brisbane airport) are the security so obnoxious and brain dead.
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