Originally Posted by
HSVTSO Dean
Cool, but they're not supposed to. TSA even came out after they changed the requirements and said that FSDs do not have the authority to require the showing of boarding passes a second time at the WTMD, meaning that TSA wants it checked only at the TDC podium, and that's that.
My best advice is to use the Got Feedback? thing and tell TSA which airports are doing it. It might inspire them to get in touch with the local TSA powers-that-be and put a stop to it.
Note, however, that if there is no TDC podium - i.e.: the WTMD operator is the one performing the ID/BP check, then that's fine. We do that in Huntsville after 5:30pm or so, when we're down to a faint trickle of passengers and a skeleton crew, and can't afford to have one of the blue shirts out at TDC.
This perspective aligns exactly with my observations at SYR. The FSD there is known for adding whatever he can to increase the airport's endearing prison-like aura. All of a sudden, a couple of weeks after SSSS was realigned and denutted, and no other airport was performing multiple BP checks, after continuing to demand a re-look at the BP at the WTMD, SYR stopped this annoying practice. Like any good warden, the SYR FSD knows how to follow orders.
I know that very little of how TSA operates is logic based or strategically sound, but it is widely known that the purpose of multiple BP checks at the checkpoint was to ensure that those flagged for additional haraSSSSment actually received it, and they would not, if the intial ID checker failed to send SSSS victims through the correct route. Continuing to double check the BP at the WTMD for an SSSS that won't ever be there, has to be the epitome of futility, unless you consider the sporadic TSA recheck of BP''s and ID's at the gate.