do they not do that in florida??
I've not been since 2002, so have no experience of the newest security checks. I presume that the shoe checking must be a nationwide thing. Unless the guys in Atlanta just had a foot fetish [msnwink]
Its something else to look forward to next Friday.
Mike & Sue Wooder-Jones
Sometimes you have to remove your shoes at MCO. My mother in law , who's 74 and my wife had to take theirs off and the shoes went thru' the scanner. I had trainers on and got waved straight thru'. Funny thing was , after the scan my mother in law was wandering about in a panic looking for her shoes, which my wife noticed were being carried off by a stranger! Must have thought they looked nicer than hers. Give me Sanford every time! Although my M - in -L got stopped and searched by customs there when she took a Christmas Pudding over for her other daughter who lives there.(But thats another story)![msneek]
Kevin
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by KevinT
Sometimes you have to remove your shoes at MCO. My mother in law , who's 74 and my wife had to take theirs off and the shoes went thru' the scanner. I had trainers on and got waved straight thru'. Funny thing was , after the scan my mother in law was wandering about in a panic looking for her shoes, which my wife noticed were being carried off by a stranger! Must have thought they looked nicer than hers. Give me Sanford every time! Although my M - in -L got stopped and searched by customs there when she took a Christmas Pudding over for her other daughter who lives there.(But thats another story)![msneek]
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A lot of womens shoes with heels have metal in them....I always put my shoes throught the scanner....
The shoe thing started when that English Muslim tried to blow up a jet with a bomb in his heal but it failed to detonate not long after 9/11
They will check everyones shoes except those that have trainers on that can be seen to be seamless or some that can be seen to have no heal but that is down to the individual customs officer
Quite frankly they can check me as many times as they like with the amount of flying I do - last year 11 times this year 4 already I want to feel safe.
I think you could get a lot more explosive inside the trainers I've seen than in some of the flip flop some people I've seen were asked to remove. Personally I think they have to be seen to have checked a certain percentage of shoes each flight and its easier to ask someone to remove slip off shoes than wait while trainers are undone and done up again.
Babblin Boo
A guy 2 people in front of me in a queue once complained that the security folks singled out poeple flying one-way for shoe searches and wanted to know if it was the airline's policy. This was hastily denied. I was also on a one-way ticket and hey presto my shoes (training shoes) also went through the scanner. This made me think of all the times my shoes were scanned. Every time I've had a one-way ticket they've been searched. A couple of times I've been on a return ticket they've been searched. The policy may be to search everyone on a one-way ticket. The policy may be to search at random. Who knows? Makes you think though?
Steve
I can categorically state that on May 13th at Sanford we Did Not have our photographs taken and we did not have our fingerprints taken either.
We actually got through immigration quicker than on on our last trip in March 2002 when things were a bit heavy with armed guards kicking about the airport.
1 of our friends has just come back from orlando, and i asked them about the flights out and back, and was told that it took them over 4hrs to go through immigration and have their shoes checked but no finger printing. Personnally i think that takes the mickey (OTT)i'm not looking forward to it when we go next year.
We have spoken with friends that we are going with next year about going somewhere else where there isn't all the hassle thats going on with the US eg.visas,passports,immigration probs etc etc etc
cmale35
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