Yeah. Total meltdown at MDW yesterday afternoon. Lines all the way back into the hall leading to the CTA station. Has to be either labor action or understaffing.

I wonder if there is a company in the private sector that has an attrition high as the TSA.

Long waits for TSA screening along with all the other apparent TSA issues might help to bring an end to TSA as we know it. If the public can tough it out for a short time the outcome might be worth it.

I wouldn't bet on it. In fact, I'd wager just the opposite - that their funding will grow immensely to "address the problem".

Indeed

I think there might be some changes that will benefit passengers, but at the same time I think TSA will also get a boat-load more funding to squander.

Well, that's the least they could do. No, seriously: There is no action that they could have taken that would have required less effort. And given that they need the government, they won't do anything to tick it off until their pocketbooks start getting hit.

Hang on, hang on, no liquid checks for imaginary explosives? Is it still safe to fly? How am I supposed to know for sure that that 83-year old woman actually needs to be in a wheelchair and isn't just a terrorist trying to smuggle through a bomb in her shoe?

Mike

You mean Real Time Threat Assesment aka Managed Includion 1?

What you posted is everyday operation of Managed Inclusion I. Remember ONLY Managed Inclusion II was canceled.

More dogs,presumably for conducting Managed Inclusion, has been reported for weeks in National and local media.

And yes the dogs are most certainly for the purpose to speed things up.

From comments I've seen, some of the airlines are making a minor windfall out of this in rebooking fees.


Come on, Mike. An 83-year-old woman in a wheelchair would never hide something nasty in her shoes. 'Everyone' (aka TSA) knows she'd put it in her bosom or near her genitals.

Wife and I have both been selected for Pre last Sunday and today before arriving at the airport. Some form of Managed Inclusion is in play that does not depend on dogs or bdo's.

This morning in MIA I was going through the PreCheck line. A woman in front of me got the "random quota" beep, and was sent to the scanner. As I was collecting my carry-on luggage from the x-Ray chute, I heard the TSO manning the scanner tell the woman that she would have to wait post-scanner for female assist. The woman loudly burst into tears.

I looked back as I was moving away, and the scanner monitor with the gumby image clearly showed a single "anomaly" centered right on gumby's crotch. I felt bad for the woman, because we all know what was about to happen to her :(

Sadly, you are likely correct on both counts.

Mike

From what I have been reading on AskTSA, crotch anomalies are commonplace. Could she have been transgender? That accounts for some of them, but not all. TSA needs to figure out why scanners on alarming on crotchhes and fix it.

BTW, Peter Greenberg on WCBS this a.m. said that TSA will not have enough new screeners trained to ease travel this summer - which we all know - but this was the first time I'd heard anyone "official" say anything. It's something that needs to be said more often.

At LAS C gates. Crowd very reasonable. I glanced at checkpoint for D gates and had major waits. Night and day.

The TSA head is scamming the public. He claims that the current wait times are a result of what he inherited and too little staffing.

The TSA line waits didn't become so bad so quickly because of what happened two years ago or earlier with TSA staffing levels.

Neff's a bozo, and I can't take seriously any insinuation that this rather big and sudden increase in wait times is due to things beyond decisions he made and advanced across the board.