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Originally Posted by GTS Mark
If you have been to Schipol airport in amsterdam they do security at the gate. I had to do that (again) before reboarding...Then on top of that we had to go thru a hand pat down and they went thru absolutely everything in our bags and questioned the shit out of us.
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You have to do that from parts of Heathrow now too. It changed in the last year or so because it was only my most recent flight to the States (in Feb 2010) where it had moved to that level. I am not sure if you have to do that for anything other than flights to the States but it was a hugely long process. You had already gone through the normal security checks. Then there is a really long walk to a near separate wing of the airport where you then have to go through it all again but this time with nearly everybody's carry on being hand searched and passports being checked again.
All of which makes Heathrow even crappier to fly from.
I had to fly to Newark a week or so after 911 for my grandfather's funeral and it wasn't even that level then and trust me it was tight. Not as tight as the connecting flight in Paris though.