Originally Posted by
clrankin
I've tried to avoid IAD in my travels as much as possible. If it tells you anything about how bad TSA is there (bad as in disrespectful, hostile, not following SOP, etc). I live in western Loudoun county and will drive the ~90 minutes to get to DCA rather than take the ~25 minute drive to IAD. In fact, this week I opted to drive to BWI and fly from there, rather than deal with IAD.
Given BWI's rep for TSA, it must be really bad at IAD if you'd drive that far and would rather put up with them.