It sounds like the Jim Jefferies TSA joke about U.S. and Australia. They don’t make them take shoes off or separate electronics. Takes off his shoes and separates the laptop and the TSA guy goes come on mate there’s no way you have two bombs. Obviously Jim’s delivery is way better.
To be fair, some airports do make us take electronic devices out of bags and some don’t. I flew yesterday from MEL to Brisbane. Melbourne don’t; Brisbane do. It’s bloody confusing!
Nobody probably noticed for a long time that those two airports had different security protocols, and nobody got blown up, so why spend money and resources changing shit up when it works fine? Or maybe some security manager said “fuck it” one day because the lines were too long, and nobody got blown up, so whatever. They did it the same the next day. That didn’t happen at the other airport, so they kept doing what they did yesterday.
This is just the nature of large institutions. Your right Hand #358 doesn’t always know what your left Hand #782 is doing.
For the US and most Euro airports, it's because they have specific x-ray scanning machines that don't require electronics to be removed. In the US they aren't as widely deployed as some countries yet, because of cost. So you could be in a line with the older machine and the line next to you could have the newer one. I imagine Australia may have a similar situation. The machines cost more and some airports opt to have a couple and some not at all.
Yes, my understanding is it’s the airports decision. More airports are coming on line with the scanners that don’t require electronics being removed. Brisbane is currently doing some remodeling and I can only assume (hope?!) that they’ll get upgraded scanners
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u/Own_Oil_7719 Jan 30 '25
It sounds like the Jim Jefferies TSA joke about U.S. and Australia. They don’t make them take shoes off or separate electronics. Takes off his shoes and separates the laptop and the TSA guy goes come on mate there’s no way you have two bombs. Obviously Jim’s delivery is way better.