My son took his first flight, to San Antonio, a couple(?) years ago, and the ticket counter agent gave me a gate pass to go back and sit with him before his flight.
The first time I left the country, going to Canada in summer of 2000 (back when you could still joke that this was Barely Leaving The Country), I was with a bunch of graduate students driving to a conference in Guelph. As we approached the border, we realized that the Chinese national in our group *might* have trouble crossing back into the U.S. because even in 2000 immigration was getting a bit more hardass. She spent the week making sure all her paperwork was in order, and fortunately wasn’t even given a second look when we drove back across the border. Two years later, that would’ve been a much bigger worry.
You can still do this, I’ve done it several times when my wife and daughter go visit family in the summer. I didn’t know you could but the staff at the ticket counter mentioned that I could get a guest pass to get through security and wait at the gate so I do it every time now.
I remember getting new history Text books at my highschool in 2012. At the back was a detailed outline of the changes in Air travel procedures.
I hated flying before 9/11 and I super double hate it now.
Trains are yet again the superior form of locomotion
I’m old enough to remember smoking in planes, but not old enough to have smoked on a plane.
My son took his first flight, to San Antonio, a couple(?) years ago, and the ticket counter agent gave me a gate pass to go back and sit with him before his flight.
The first time I left the country, going to Canada in summer of 2000 (back when you could still joke that this was Barely Leaving The Country), I was with a bunch of graduate students driving to a conference in Guelph. As we approached the border, we realized that the Chinese national in our group *might* have trouble crossing back into the U.S. because even in 2000 immigration was getting a bit more hardass. She spent the week making sure all her paperwork was in order, and fortunately wasn’t even given a second look when we drove back across the border. Two years later, that would’ve been a much bigger worry.
Never thought I’d see Davan of all people saying that.
You can still do this, I’ve done it several times when my wife and daughter go visit family in the summer. I didn’t know you could but the staff at the ticket counter mentioned that I could get a guest pass to get through security and wait at the gate so I do it every time now.