[nagdu] TSA Screening of Service Animals

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Ron,

They can do that?  Yikes!  So what happens to you when the airline you
booked a flight with is on the opposite side of the airport than the one
you're actually flying out on.  This is not a surprise I would want to have,
even if it didn't mean getting flagged for security.

Well, I didn't have problems at the other airports, despite being a complete
newbie and feeling my way awkwardly through the whole process.  It was just
at Houston everything got all fubar before I could blink.  Everybody else I
dealt with in finding a relieving area then getting back to a people toilet
then getting back to security to get to my connecting flight was actually
fairly terrific, helpful, friendly, all that.  Then there would be the big
frufraw at security with the fascist patrol, then everything would go back
to being all sunshine and roses except that I felt considerably more
frazzled than I had before.  /smile/

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Davidson
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 4:37 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] TSA Screening of Service Animals

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. 


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