I believe it, Jon. I can just imagine the reactions.

My sister gets enough hassle about her violin case, like the screeners just came from a double feature of old mob movies or something.

I'd definitely hold LAX up as the crappiest airport I've been in, but at least I always left it on the intended flights.

I've been delayed in LAX twice. Once they cancelled my flight back to Sydney. The other time we missed our connecting flight to Philly, though they graciously allowed our luggage to make it on time. I was, at the time, utterly gobsmacked that they cared so little for security that they'd let unattended luggage make a cross-country flight.

I was, at the time, utterly gobsmacked that they cared so little for security that they'd let unattended luggage make a cross-country flight.

Delta sent my luggage unattended to Moscow after I switched to another flight.

The Seventh is the commuter section of Cincinnati's airport.

Whoever designed that needs to die bloody.

I don't miss flying in and out of Kentucky Cincinnati.

Just about every time I've flown out of the New Orleans airport (like, maybe 12 times out of the 16 or so I've done it), they've taken my carryon for the test where they run a piece of gauze over the zipper pulls with a pair of tongs and then run the gauze through some machine. I've been told that this is testing for either explosive or drug residue. (Different people I've asked about this have given me different answers.) I've never had this happen at any other airport, and I've never seen them test anyone else's luggage.

I had that done at Midway once. Fairly sure its for explosives.

They used to do that to my laptops all the time. Though I've not seen it as much recently.

I had that done at Midway once.

I really don't like that airport.

I've had flights delayed by more than a few minutes exactly twice in my life, and both times involved Chicago connections.

Lesson learned: Don't connect in Chicago.