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| - Hands down the least efficient international security I have ever been to, coming or leaving anywhere.
First off, the lines coming in made no sense. At the beginning of security we showed our boarding passes and got ushered, with little explanation, forward into three divided lines. This three lines were short, all immediately bottle necking into a confused mash-up right before we are supposed to get our boarding pass scanned a second time. There was nobody there to direct traffic as to how lines were to converge to one. Finally a guy came up to help manage lines, although he also seemed confused. He started checking which of the lines were priority - which seems like a thing that should have happened BEFORE passengers got in line. We were in the third line, already having let the first two lines feed in first. Once he found that two of the three lines were priority, he told our line to hold off even longer - and as more people joined the other lines he had them all go in front of us. People behind us in line were on time crunches for flights and waited as multiple people showed up in the other two lines to be sent through, without even explaining the system to our line. It was weird, unclear, and awkward process.
Once we got through the line, the belt to place bags on to go through the machines was incredibly short. Maybe three trays at a time could be set up, making the entire security process so much slower because there was so little prep space. Most airports have a longer belt - multiple people get ready at once, and once you have all your trays ready you sent 'em on through. Here, you do a tray then push it through, then pull out another tray. It ends up putting all the things through in random order, which was odd.
THEN, the person traveling with me had a film camera that he explained needed to be hand checked rather than go through the electronic machine because it will destroy all the pictures we took on vacation. They said it was electronic so it had to go through the machine. Okay, reasonable confusion as we come into an age where we believe that everything is electronic - yet a film camera, from my understanding, should not fit that category. Especially when sending it through the machine literally ruins the film! They then said they could only hand check it if they could open the camera - exposing light, also ruining the film. We debated with them for awhile, reasonably trying to preserve our vacation photos, to which we got extremely rude attitudes in response from multiple employees. This included one lady yelling that we should have "just finished the roll before we got into the airport". This has been a hassle at many a airports, this is the only one that never actually found a solution. Instead we had to waste the rest of a roll of expensive film. Ah, a desire for artful photography on a vacation has officially become a danger to our safety!
During that whole process, I was still waiting for my own bag on the other side. It was taking incredibly long because EVERY single person I saw go through the line got something flagged to be checked, every group of people. Literally everyyyyyyyyone! Because it was also coming out in random order, many of us were standing on the other end in a group slightly confused. One women had an envelope that she wanted to be hand checked, and the guy asked with quite a bit of attitude "what even is this?". She told him it was her grandmother's marriage certification, to which he didn't even respond.
My bag got flagged for having cans of beans in it - one was British style canned beans with tomato sauce which I cannot find in my grocery store at home. The women who was checking my bag yelled across the room to another employee who was clearly on the phone, to which the employee yelled back that she was on the phone. Screaming across the airport seemed like an inefficient way of getting a response, especially with an employee clearly on the phone. She then called someone else over said "Have you ever had this beans? How much sauce is mixed with the beans?" the lady said she did not know, so the first employee said "Well, I think there is enough!" and then told me I couldn't take them. Okay okay okay, maybe my sealed can of beans I should have double checked that the sauce mixed in is not allowed on the plane - because rules are rules. The fact that they handled it almost as if wanting to find reasons to flag people, and took so much time trying to figure it out after an already chaotic process, was ridiculous.
Finally after tossing the beans and film, we headed to our gates. Woo. Then I got on the plane - and the guy next to me on the flight had a lighter full of lighter fluid on the plane. That part may be beyond the airport's control - but seriously, my sealed can of beans that I can only snag easily abroad is a problem yet a lighter full of lighter fluid is breezing through? Seems like a skewed idea of safety to me.
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