Originally Posted by
mersk862
I forgot that the TSA shut down the international checkpoint on Airside 4 for arriving passengers. Makes some sense in that it's probably easier on manpower (read: $$$$) to do this as I'd bet than less than 1% of international arriving passengers at MCO are connecting to an international flight, so if they can make it a sterile process to get passengers into the main terminal, it would save money from re-screening all these passengers just to get them to baggage claim.
Of course, this does get annoying in the situation you mention above.
When you watch the dozens of sherpas needed to prevent the two categories of pax from intermingling and then separating, (line minders, train watchers, monorail sterilization specialists) it seems obvious to me that bussing int'l arrivals from the terminal to the non-sterile side of security would be far more cost effective. There's probably a faux security reason that can't be done, though. I doubt $$$$ figures much in TSA strategy, and from what anyone can see, the more clowns utilized, the better the security procedure, at least in their eyes.