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Old Aug 21, 2013 | 1:26 pm
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Originally Posted by SeaClay007
My wife is not Pre so we were going to use the sky priority lane except TSA had changed the queuing process for all non-Pre pax forcing everyone into one long line prior to being split for Sky Priority and kettle. A complete cluster IMO.
How did that work? I'm not understanding the situation you've described.

Originally Posted by SeaClay007
Post ID check was chaos as well with no one guiding pax to lanes and no sense of order.
For the life of me I'll never understand why the BOS Terminal A TSA ID checkers continue processing passengers when there's a backup at the screening belts/scanners. As you've noted, this careless practice only results in a tangled nest of queues snaking back from the screening lanes. Why not hold passengers back at the ID checkpoint until the congestion dissipates?

Originally Posted by SeaClay007
It took almost thirty minutes to clear security on a Tuesday morning.
Completely unacceptable. And for SkyPriority passengers, no less.

Living less than 10 minutes from BOS, I typically leave home one hour before my flight's scheduled departure and still have time for a SkyClub visit. On multiple occasions, however, inexplicable TSA meltdowns have nearly caused me to miss flights.

Originally Posted by SeaClay007
They had also installed some huge projection device with a screen shaped like a body that projected a person going through the litany of 311, etc. information. Seems like an expensive waste of money for a custom device instead of just using a standard flat screen monitor. Didn't take a pic unfortunately.
I've seen these idiotic, quasi-holographic "agents" elsewhere, too. Unimaginable waste of money.

Originally Posted by Ysitincoach
Did they have TSA representatives doing chat downs with pax in line? So-called Behavior Detection Officers?
God, I hope they're not starting up with that farce again. Once had a BOS TSA "behavior expert" tell me that I was acting nervous, this in advance of perhaps my 100th enplanement of the year.
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