I had a flight to and from the Netherlands about a year ago. Going out we were all treated as seditious terrorists who only the vigil of the staff prevented from blowing up the pain. Everything searched / scanned.

Coming back a day later we had a brief glance of our passports and all got on. No plastic bags for hand luggage, no checks for taking fluids on board.

Amazingly, the plane didn't blow up on the return leg of the journey!