... Airport, Immigration .... etc

I still have a few things I had scribbled in my note book which I keep saying should be here. Nowadays travelling can never be taken for granted.

It seems that I'm not the only one who is always apprehensive when coming in contact with immigration officials at the airports. Obviously it has something to do with the heightened security alerts since the issue of terrorism arose. I read somewhere that a poll taken from regular foreign traveller's 66 per cent were uneasy.

Nowadays I hear travelling to the US mainly can never be taken for granted from the stories I hear - I've never been there. It is understandable given it has 1.1m foreigners enter US everyday I'm informed. So the staff can be overly aggressive - probably it's just has to do with fatigue, be warned though they can make your journey a hellish experience. After checking in and queuing up to go through the security check one security guy picked me out in the the line (I had a rather large 'hand luggage' I guess). Anyway he took me back to the check-in line to confirm whatever and then to make matters worse I had to stay at the back of the queue again! Were it not for the heavy presence of security with weapons I think I should have picked a fight with the guy. I don't mind him doing his work but have the courtesy and restore me to my position - I'm running abit late here.

It is embarassing to appear like a suspect.

Amazing but I sat next to a lady making a connecting flight to Kenya from the US - she complained the customer service levels at the UK airport needs to be looked into. Well she got conflicting information as to her luggage allowance and was in the process forced to pay for the 'excess' luggage. Nobody would even listen to her story.

Maybe it's just me again.