[nagdu] TSA Screening of Service Animals

[Angie Matney]

Hi Ron,

I find that TSA screening can really vary, depending on which airport I fly out of. I have never had a problem in the Charlottesville airport, but Richmond...<shudder>

What a mess about your flight! It's good to know that those things can happen.

Angie

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:36:53 -0500, Ron Davidson wrote:

>TSA Screening has never been a problem for me. I get to the check point and 
>as you said they move me to a separate line and I  go through leaving my dog 
>in the sit stay position and after I get through I call the dog and he 
>always sets it off. The TSA staff are usually very nice and I hold the dog 
>while they check the dog . They do always ask before touching the dog and I 
>just hold the leash and he just stands and lets them do their thing. The 
>only time I had to go through a full screening I mean everything was checked 
>because I got tagged they called it. I flew to Baltimore on a Friday and 
>while I was there over the weekend United sold my ticket to Continental and 
>they sold it to Northwest and at the time I got to the NW gate they had sold 
>it to Delta. I got tagged as a possible threat because I changed my flight 
>so many times. I asked the TSA agent why I got tagged and he said the 
>airline did it because I changed my flight so many times. I told him that I 
>never changed a thing they did it themselves. He said that  is why it takes 
>so long to go through security. The next week I was due to fly to NY and I 
>called my travel agent and told her that I better not go through that mess 
>again and she notified Air Tran and they said they wouldn't do that and they 
>didn't. So I now use Air Tran and those other four airlines can kiss my you 
>know what.