Airport security: complaints and flaws after 9/11

There are many different complaints to be made post 9/11 regarding airport security. Some claim that the security-crew at the airport completely exaggerates the use of security checks and violate their personal sphere whereas it has been pointed out that the security system at many airports has flaws.

Shashi Tharoor, a man who has been flying frequently since he was six, claims that the vast use of thorough security checks has emerged heavily since the tragedy of 9/11. He is not accustomed to being frisked and having a metal detector pushed into awkward places, as well as having to take off his shoes and putting them through a screening device. The security staff even interrogates people about some intimate items that, according to them, seem to have something to do with hi-jacking a plane. Furthermore the airport security asks travellers not to lock their suitcase with a combination lock, to make it possible to examine its content. This, claims Shashi Tharoor, can be correlated with pilferage among the frequent-fliers. During this humiliating process you will have to keep smiling and you are certainly not to complain while being frisked, otherwise they really come down on you. A friend of his had even stopped travelling by plane because of this vast use of security.