I fly regularly and I’ve learned which shoes I can and can’t wear through the airport, because I really, really loathe having to take my shoes off to put them through the scanner (damn that shoe bomber anyway).
Sensibly, I pick shoes that have no metal in them (ok, let’s be frank, they’re just cheap); that way they won’t set the scanners off.
Going through Sydney airport is fine. I walk straight through; I don’t set off anything, no need for delay. Sydney airport, I might add, is the busiest airport in Australia.
Going through Canberra airport is a different matter. In my cheap shoes, I allegedly set off the scanner (several seconds after I’ve walked though) and I’m made to take off my shoes and stick them through separately. These are the same shoes, the same scanner; why is this happening? I think the guards deliberately set it off for people they don’t like. Oh yeah, and it’s not like Canberra airport is more important than Sydney; it’s not. It’s like the seventh busiest airport in Australia, and no international flights leave from there either.
Get with it guys! People don’t have to take their shoes off all the time, seriously.
Oh yeah, and I hate having to take my umbrella out of my bag when going through Canberra as well.
(Sorry I missed yesterday's post. Busy day at work.)
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12 chic comments:
I agree 100%. I have a few pair of shoes that I know I can wear thru Sydney and not set off the scanner.
Funny though - when I was coming back from Auckland, NZ, I had bootes on with a metal bucket but had my jeans over the top and I beeped as I went through - so the guy run the handheld scanner over me and obviously as he got to my ankles it beeps. So I lifed the leg of my jeans and showed him and said 'I guess you want me to take them off?' and he just said 'Nah you're fine' and let me go!
I could've have a knife or anything down there!
Wow, freaky! How long ago was it that you went through Auckland airport?
The worst is when you wear big, tall, beautiful boots, and when the airport security guy tells you to take them off, you realize that A: your socks don't match, and B: you forgot to shave.
Ay yi yi.
This is very interesting. In the states we HAVE to take our shoes off - they go through the scannery thing right along with our bags and everything else. I just wear slip-on shoes, even though I rarely wear them for anything else.
I've seen the security fools make people take off flip-flops. I can't stand the way security is inconsistent and illogical. My favorite was when they banned lighters but not matches because of the shoe bomber...even though he tried to use MATCHES to set off his bomb! Dang, now that I've written this George Bush is probably going to start tapping my phone. Maybe he can handle the telemarketers for me from now on.
Jen, oh, I've soooo been there. They were lovely stripy socks, with holes in the toes...
Rebecca, I didn't realise that it was compulsory in the US. That must REALLY irritate.
Wendy, I think that is the thing that annoys me most, being made to remove shoes that are obviously entirely plastic. Just stupid.
I'm just irritated in general that security has gotten so tight and paranoid... yet in the little areas between Canada/States, if you know where to go, crossing the border is NO problem at all (Native crosspoints where they cannot be regulated by Canada for example)... GRR
FabBroke, it's always like that isn't it? I think I wouldn't be so annoyed if it was consistant between airports.
Border crossings don't happen in Australia, you have to fly to leave the country ^_^.
Ah yes, in the states they would make you take off even the foam faux-flops they give at nail spas. No footwear whatever. My first business trip after this change, I too was wearing awful socks - not only did I have a hole, but one was rainbow striped and one was gray. Hey, who sees them under boots, right? :-)
Allie, wow, even thongs, that's taking it too far. And the socks? Exactly, that's what boots are for, to hide those days when you just can't be asked ^_^
Lizy, sorry I had to delete your comment, it seemed to be just advertising.
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