Boston is a great city but Logan Airport is a still security disaster even after the events of 9/11 (9th Sept in UK speak). We flew into Logan from Toronto and a week later out again on 11/04 back to Toronto. Agreed there were National Guard and US Marshalls at the checkout but the security staff (mostly coloured and with very poor English and obviously neither very motivated or trained properly) simply were not upto the job - we didn't see even one person given a hands on search over a period of some 4 hours waiting - they seemed to just be content to waive the paddle devices at people. Nor was there anything more than perfunctory pre-boarding searches going on. Worse still the departure lounge seemed to be completely unchecked - and since there were two gift shops open but no coffee shop, people were freely wandering from the immediate departure area down to the larger lounge and back without any check. We saw one of the gift shops visited by staff from the larger lounge carrying large boxes walk unchecked straight past the US Marshall and the security staff. Logan is on an island in Boston Harbour and if you really want to get paranoid just look out over the runway to the many small boats and ask yourself why the airport doesnt have either a perimeter fence or as far as we could see any perimeter patrols? If we had known how bad the place was I think we would have driven back to Canada not flown.
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You need more about the airport generally to be more helpful. You should also be aware that referring to the security staff as 'coloured and with poor english' may be considered as offensive by some readers. Paul.
danieletheridge 21.11.2001 07:24
I'm afraid that you deserve an 'H' rating for the simple fact that you got the date of the US terror attacks wrong. This is very embarassing to you! ...dan*e
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