Originally Posted by pbr6891
So ... here is my question : do the airlines communicate PAX counts expected per flights throughout the day ?(corrected to remove the connecting PAXs that do not go through security)
(if they do, then, I guess it's time for TSA to uses the data to staff it's stations !)
Yes but their estimations are often wrong and can't be relied upon to adjust staffing levels. All we can really do it go by what days are like on the average and take any special events into account. I'm sure the schedulers have other tactics as well. Latest great overhype would be the day before thanksgiving when we were projected to be swamped but ended up only moving 7500 passengers through the checkpoint which is nothing. That's a normal steady day, busy days aren't until the numbers pass 9000.