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Originally Posted by LakeCleElum
I agree....Been in 23 countries and all 50 states....
In my opinion, Rudeness is most common in California.....
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Maybe that explains it. I haven't gone through west coast customs since I was a youngster, and then I wouldn't have noticed.
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Originally Posted by BSiple
I will hit 1 million flown United miles next year sometime and haven't had the same bad experiences I read on here about. Now Delta and American don't get me started. I used to like Northwest when I lived in MN.
I have flown a number of non US carries, Cathway, Singapore Air, India Air, China Air, Luftansa, SAS, Air France and others I am just not remembering off the top of my head. Singapore was my favorite, but for reasons that didn't have to do with food  |
I don't have the miles that you have, but I have been to Japan twice (long, long time ago, all over the US and back and forth between the US and Europe and Brazil a few times and about 10 years back I was a Platinum Elite with Continental. I do remember thinking that Luthansa was much better than Continental, but Continental wasn't bad. I'm not as happy now that they are United, but they still aren't bad. I flew American to Brazil this summer and didn't have a problem. Maybe I've just been lucky. All in all, my flying experience including going though security and customs has been mostly good.
The one experience that I remember having was with Security after 911 in Phoenix shortly after 9/11. I was flying back to Houston from AZ. This was in the days before you had to take off your shoes. The security guy said "I recommend that you take off your shoes." I thought that was odd, "recommend". So I asked "Do I have to?" Him, "No, but I recommend it." "But I don't have to?" him - "No, you don't have to."
So I didn't, but what they really meant was "If you want to be searched, then you should leave your shoes on. If you want a smooth experience, you should take them off." If they had just said that in the first place, I would have happily removed my shoes.
Yeah, shortly after that, all airports started requiring that you remove your shoes. I preferred that.