[ronster]

Upon landing at Athens in 1990 all the passengers had to stand behind their open luggage while armed military guided sniffer dogs through everyone's bags. I went through the same interview process in Germany in 1990 as another poster here did, and in 1998 was called to the airline check in, for a flight to Mexico City, and told I had been upgraded to first class then was led into a private room where three security employees went through every inch of my luggage and another security employee conducted a pat down and wand scan. I've been traveling single for 23 years and am used to being on a "suspicious" passenger list. I also travel with a CPAP device and that sets off all kinds of bells.