Originally Posted by
Diesel450
No matter the SOP, it differs at each airport. At CVG for instance they treat you like you are in uniform, in my experience. But then they took my toothpaste at ORD, and was treated just like a normal passenger except they told me to use the crew line.
In ORD the screener was going to let me though until the supervisor behind him told him to search and take whatever was showing up, my toothpaste.
I was in CVG out of uniform coming from recurrent and they confiscated the soup in my lunch box. They aren't even consistent within the same airport.