Hey, agree with everyone that buying a ticket and taking all this time and causing other delays is wrong.

BUT, if you need or want to be in the terminal, that is what you have to do. We have made some silly decisions that airport terminals are a national threat and put these rules into place. Until we realize we have over reacted and get back to sanity, this is the way it is.

And the waste by a small number of people of buying tickets is nothing compared to those that have to arrive 2-4 hours early for flights, miss flights, etc, etc. All with minimal increase in security. I think I saw that some 50-60 million people flew in October. Tell me the delays and hassles they went through, and for what?