No, there weren't any signs, and they wouldn't let us go with her to the gate. We just stood outside the security checkpoint and watched. She's gone on a 9 day mission trip to Romania with 24 other youth from our church. I'll carry at the airport when I go pick her up.HerbM wrote:Probably -- did you see any signs? If not, you were good.kitty wrote:You mean that when I took my teenage daughter to DFW Airport this morning to leave for Romania, I could have carried in there?
I wasn't sure, so I unarmed, then ended up going back to the pickup to put up the loaded magazine I forgot to take out of my purse. I should have trusted my first instinct. Oh well, now I know when I go back to pick her up, I'll be able to carry in there.
Used to be you could go through the checkpoint to see your daughter off at the gate, but they pretty much disallowed that anyway (except maybe for unaccompanied minors which probably wasn't and issue with a 'teenager' anyway.)
At JFK (not that you can carry there) they have at least one terminal where the FRONT DOOR is the security point so you cannot go to the ticket counter without being in the secure zone (unless they have changed it).
At Houston (Bush) Intercontinental you CAN get to the ticket counters but not through the obvious door from the parking garage -- you have to go down to baggage and come up through the elevator. (I haven't been there in a while either.)
The deal is that Houston was built JUST BEFORE the "hijjacking to Havana" craze and checkpoints to they set up the entry so you cross the concourse/corridor to get to ticketing -- no problem until they had to secure that while corridor.
BTW, we did have a little oops going through security. She's never been a commercial plane before, and I haven't flown since before they've made all the new security changes since 9/11, so we were kind of winging it. Well, you are not allowed to bring any liquids on the plane over 3 oz, and then they have to be in one quart sized baggie, anything bigger than that has to be put in your checked luggage. She was told to bring snacks for her stay in Romania, so we bought her several different kinds of snacks, and a 12 pack of 8 oz. bottles of water. She packed the water in her duffel bag, but forgot it was in there when she went through security. So when her bag goes through the x-ray machine, it's flagged. The security people are going through it, and I see my daughter getting all nervous, and she looks at me and points her finger in my direction. Then a security officer come back to all the parents standing watching their kids, and she's got a cart with bottled water and asks, "So which of you moms am I supposed to give this to?" I'm looking a little sheepish, and the security guards are getting a good laugh out of it.
