I was checking a bag at IAD maybe two months ago and the TA mentioned that TSA was not doing well staffing any of the checkpoints including PC (I hadn’t flown in a couple weeks at that point). The TA said she had as many as 18 PAX miss one flight, first flight of the day at that, and that I should plan accordingly. I could see this email blast as a way for the airlines to get the nonFFers to stop bringing weird stuff and streamline the security screening but then my sarcastic side would jump in and say TSA would find a way to obfuscate the process even more.

Personally, though I have before, I don’t carry apples because I’d eat them all as soon as I got on the plane.