Bag?  What bag?  OH! That was the bag that nice man in the turban was carrying.  He got a phone call, dropped it, and started running.  I just figured I would hand it to you to put in lost and found.

Hey ladies, where are your lists?

Amsterdam Schiphol

Athens

Münster

Münich

Köln/Bonn

Chania (Crete)

Istanbul Atatürk

Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen

Ýzmir Adnan Menderes

I especially come to Amsterdam Schiphol a lot because my connecting train to university goes from there I often think I should get another connection instead.

As for questionary: 2 weeks ago upon arrival in Cologne, they took me aside and unpacked my entire suitcase just next to where ´unquestioned´ people proceeded. I asked if this was general procedure ´yes it was, especially for people travelling alone´. Well I travel from Cologne frequently and Ive never been through this procedure. They were making a problem of the cellphone I bought in TR (a ´gift´ and I had to pay a fee on the 2nd cigarette box I bought. Id rather have them sealing my luggage and xraying it many times instead of having a strange man going through my luggage in public!

I don’t know all the airport names but I will put them in where I know them. Here is my non-alphabetized list -

San Francisco - Los Angeles - Portland - LaGuardia - Midway - O’Hare - Sky Harbor - Phoenix - McCarran - St. Louis - Denver - Reagan National - Hartsfield - Heathrow - Athens - Tehran - Kerman - Auckland - and Melbourne

Edit - Don´t know how I could...but I forgot Montego Bay!!!

Billund - Copenhagen - Hamburg - Amsterdam Schiphol - Köln - München - Paris Charles de Gaulle - London Gatwick - London Heathrow - Milan Malpensa - Venice - Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen - Istanbul Atatürk - Ankara - Antalya - Van - Miami Intl. - Orlando

Maybe a couple more. Now that you mention Schiphol, my experience is that it´s great  for transfer, but if you are checking in there for the first time it´s hard to find one´s way. But nothing beats Paris CDG - I´ve never seen such a chaotic airport, never! Once on a connecting flight for Istanbul I almost didn´t make it though I was running through the airport, only stopping at signs for directions, which were so cluttered. Finally I made it as the last person boarding, only to learn that my baggage didn´t - apparently they didn´t have enough time to bring that I´m definitely going to avoid CDG at any cost in the future.

 All the British airports ask this!

My List:

UK

Stansted

Norwich

Edinburgh

Glasgow Prestwick

Glasgow International

Gatwick

Luton

Netherlands

Amsterdam Schipol

Germany

Hamburg

Dusseldorf

Spain

Gerona

Alicante

Palma - Majorca

Ibiza

Furteventura

Malta

Italy

Sardinia

Brescia

Milan

Austria

Salzburg

China

Shanghai

Shenzhen

Hong Kong

Mauritius

USA

Chicago - both airports

Tampa

And another I can´t remember

Greece

Corfu

Crete

Turkey

Istanbul Ataturk

Ankara

Dalaman

Bodrum

Switzerland

Geneva

Thats is all I can remember, I am sure there are more.......................

Well, maybe it has changed lately. But the odd thing is that Amsterdam bugs people even though they are only connecting there!!! Everywhere else I have only encountered these dumb questions only at the place of departure!

We just don´t trust you Americans.... (even / especially if they are originally Polish ... )

Damn... you Dutch must be extremely intelligent to come up with such a sophisticated screening method! No criminal can pass through...

funny, but I was asked exactly the same questions at Ataturk airport, but it didnt bother me at all since the guy asking these questions was very handsome....   when he was done I asked "is that it"??