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Subject: Airline luggage: Increased security checks


>Delays are already too long.  Picking up your baggage adds another 15 - 20
>minutes to your travel time domestically.  It takes me 45 minutes to clear
>customs in Canada . . .


I am from Barcelona. When last week I occasionally travelled to London, from each side of the Old Continent "Customs" they asked me:

Why do you want to visit London?
Reply: As a tourist.
Then how long time would you like to stay?
Reply: As depended...
Further dependssssssssss:
Then where you will be going to?
Under-reply:
But, Hell to you! I am only tourist!

>
>They want to limit the number of carry-on's, search your checked baggage,
>and show three (3) forms of ID in the name of what?  Security?
>
>What is the U.S. government doing to people to piss them off to the level
>that the government feels that American citizens will be retaliated against?
>
>The U.S. government needs to leave Sadat and Iran alone.  They need to
>stop talking about assassinating heads of state and other foreign
>government officials. The U.S. government should stop playing with South
>Korea economy.


Greeting to your suggests.

>
>The U.S. government should START paying attention to the aging jets in
>service, better radar systems and more truth in actual travel times.
>
>Can you tell I did not have a great flight home for the holidays?
>Canceled fights, 2.5 hours delays and then no luggage . . .  And then I
>read this . . .
>
>F. Leon
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>Domestic airline luggage will be subject to increased security checks in
>1998, the Federal Aviation Administration and major airlines said.
>Passenger screening techniques will be used to select people who will be
>"matched" to their bags or have their luggage screened by an
>explosives-detection device.  Bag matching means a passenger's bags will
>not be transported unless the passenger is on the flight. Some passengers
>selected at random will also experience increased security measures,
>officials said.
>
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>- Associated Press