I am in yet another airport lounge here in LAX waiting for my flight to Vancouver. I am reminded of some of the strange things that the security at the airport in Kathmandu did.
As soon as you walk in the airport, your bags have to go through a large x-ray machine. Then you have to check in and go upstairs. We went to the lounge and it was actually pretty nice! Then you have to go through security before heading to the gate. The security line splits people based on gender. Although it is strange, I could understand the rationale. If there needed to be a pat down, I would need a female security officer, so we all might as well be in the same line. Okay. After going through the security, and not having to take out your laptops by the way, you head over to female officers who then root through each bag you have and stamp your boarding pass. So, my bags have been through 2 machines and now a 3rd manual inspection. So we go down to the gate and people are lining up at a door that heads straight out to the tarmac. Suddenly, a man signals for us to follow him and move up in the line! Great! No, not great, strange. Only the women were being herded that way. They were once again separating us based on gender...to board the plane? Does that make any sense? No. No, it does not. But wait! Just before we head out to the tarmac we were subjected to yet ANOTHER manual pat down. Seriously. What could have happened from the security point upstairs?
I guess I just don't understand the wasted manpower, wasted resources and wasted time. Can't there be SOME standardization at international airports? Just a little bit?
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