<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Fenito:
As a current screener, and private security consultant...... but being a selectee I know takes a couple of minutes of your time...but please bare with us....Honestly...It should take no more than 5 minutes max to screen a selectee checked bag..unless you're going international and have 70lbs worth of everything walmart sells in your bag....and 5 minutes to get through checkpoint selectee screening. Just offering my 2 cents..</font>
As a private security consultant I'm sure you must be aware of how IN-effective the current TSA procedures are. TSA was suppose to implement all sorts of "new" technologies to thrart the bad guys, instead we are having little old ladies removing thier shoes in the middle of a busy airport.
And your statement that this will only take a few minutes is fine if there is only one PAX. But in reality when you're trying to load multiple 747s with 400+ PAXs each, the poor guy at the end of the line had to show up a couple of hours early just to get his 5 minutes of fame prior to boarding.
I say let's stop doing security the old fashioned way. All that does is piss off PAXs and make terrorist laugh. I beg Loy to get off the dime and implement the new technology. Stop wasting money on the old technology.