Originally Posted by
timfountain
You lost me at the "3 hours before flight".The rest was a diatribe about SJC, one of 1000's of airports in the US and by the sound of it, the only on the OP
That was it for me, too-- it only got more complicated and time consuming from there.
For reference for the OP-- I live about 30 minutes east of BUR. I've *driven* from my house to San Jose in about 4 hours.
When I fly from LAX, I typically leave my house 2 hours before my departure time from LAX-- the thought of having to be *at* the airport 3 hours before flying is horrific, especially since I tend to take early morning flights.
The whole proposal just adds a whole lot more standing in different lines, rather than shortening anything.
The way to shorten security waits is to make precheck the standard screening method and use what's now standard as the first level of SSSS screening. Doing that and coordinating staffing and number of lanes open to the known passenger traffic loads would make a big difference and probably cost less than now without any reduction in security.