Long TSA Lines [merged threads]
May 16, 2016 | 1:28 pm
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Coincidentally, TSA claims to be aggressively marketing the Pre solution while keeping Pre lanes shut down and staging a general work slowdown. Even at the airports most impacted, there continue to be reports of pax standing around while TSOs indulge in personal conversations or check their cellphones - zero sense of urgency on the part of workers or management. This attitude and the outright contempt displayed at AskTSA reinforce the public's negative perception of TSA.
Why would the top folks at TSA be so unconcerned about the further decline in the agency's reputation and the threats of privatization? Perhaps they have a personal stake in privatization.
It wouldn't be the first time an out-going head of TSA was setting up his post-retirement income stream.
May 16, 2016 | 2:55 pm
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Someone realized there's a bucket load of money to be made by providing private security to replace TSA. The real money will be at the big airports, of course, and those airports are the best places to get everyone's attention.
Coincidentally, TSA claims to be aggressively marketing the Pre solution while keeping Pre lanes shut down and staging a general work slowdown. Even at the airports most impacted, there continue to be reports of pax standing around while TSOs indulge in personal conversations or check their cellphones - zero sense of urgency on the part of workers or management. This attitude and the outright contempt displayed at AskTSA reinforce the public's negative perception of TSA.
Why would the top folks at TSA be so unconcerned about the further decline in the agency's reputation and the threats of privatization? Perhaps they have a personal stake in privatization.
It wouldn't be the first time an out-going head of TSA was setting up his post-retirement income stream.
Coincidentally, TSA claims to be aggressively marketing the Pre solution while keeping Pre lanes shut down and staging a general work slowdown. Even at the airports most impacted, there continue to be reports of pax standing around while TSOs indulge in personal conversations or check their cellphones - zero sense of urgency on the part of workers or management. This attitude and the outright contempt displayed at AskTSA reinforce the public's negative perception of TSA.
Why would the top folks at TSA be so unconcerned about the further decline in the agency's reputation and the threats of privatization? Perhaps they have a personal stake in privatization.
It wouldn't be the first time an out-going head of TSA was setting up his post-retirement income stream.
When it came time for the screening the TSO said please wait while the machine warms up. What used to take 5 minutes at most took 45 minutes at my home airport. Supposedly this is happening everywhere and the rumors going around is that orders came from the top to slow down and make people wait.
May 16, 2016 | 2:58 pm
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Someone realized there's a bucket load of money to be made by providing private security to replace TSA. The real money will be at the big airports, of course, and those airports are the best places to get everyone's attention.
Coincidentally, TSA claims to be aggressively marketing the Pre solution while keeping Pre lanes shut down and staging a general work slowdown. Even at the airports most impacted, there continue to be reports of pax standing around while TSOs indulge in personal conversations or check their cellphones - zero sense of urgency on the part of workers or management. This attitude and the outright contempt displayed at AskTSA reinforce the public's negative perception of TSA.
Why would the top folks at TSA be so unconcerned about the further decline in the agency's reputation and the threats of privatization? Perhaps they have a personal stake in privatization.
It wouldn't be the first time an out-going head of TSA was setting up his post-retirement income stream.
Coincidentally, TSA claims to be aggressively marketing the Pre solution while keeping Pre lanes shut down and staging a general work slowdown. Even at the airports most impacted, there continue to be reports of pax standing around while TSOs indulge in personal conversations or check their cellphones - zero sense of urgency on the part of workers or management. This attitude and the outright contempt displayed at AskTSA reinforce the public's negative perception of TSA.
Why would the top folks at TSA be so unconcerned about the further decline in the agency's reputation and the threats of privatization? Perhaps they have a personal stake in privatization.
It wouldn't be the first time an out-going head of TSA was setting up his post-retirement income stream.
May 16, 2016 | 4:28 pm
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TSA employees displaying typical TSA professionalism.
TSA agents stood around and cracked jokes while passengers waited over four hours
TSA employees displaying typical TSA professionalism.
May 16, 2016 | 6:24 pm
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Lots of parents don't think it through; they're convinced that having their kids' fingerprints taken is some kind of a hedge against abduction. The faulty reasoning is, "if someone steals my child, the fingerprints will prove it's mine and I'll get it back!" The fault in that, of course, is that if you need fingerprints to identify a child, it's either because the child is too young to identify their own parents, is non-verbal due to a condition such as autism, or because the child is dead. But parents simply don't think that way. They just think, fingerprints = safety.
May 16, 2016 | 6:54 pm
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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/0...y-holes-120117
May 16, 2016 | 7:15 pm
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Well, that's not the case at all. It was clear almost a year ago that this would happen.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/0...y-holes-120117
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/0...y-holes-120117
A month after the TSA was embarrassed by its almost-total failure in a covert security audit, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has ordered the agency to pursue an improvement plan that will require more hand-wanding of passengers, more use of bomb-sniffing dogs and more random testing of luggage and travelers for traces of explosives.
What has happened is that TSA put all of its eggs in the Pre Check basket and failed to plan for normal business.
Neffenger should be fired yesterday!
May 16, 2016 | 7:24 pm
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Well, that's not the case at all. It was clear almost a year ago that this would happen.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/0...y-holes-120117
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/0...y-holes-120117
May 16, 2016 | 7:40 pm
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Chicago Tribune:
TSA plans more staff to cut airport lines, but union says it's not enough
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...the Transportation Security Administration plans to hire nearly 800 new officers this month and pay for more part-time workers and overtime.
But the union that represents security officers said that won't solve the problem, and that TSA needs 6,000 additional full-time officers to address a shortfall that has come as airlines are experiencing an increase in passengers.
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About 450 American Airlines customers at O'Hare International Airport missed flights Sunday due to lines of more than two hours, and dozens who couldn't get on a later flight slept on cots at the terminal, American spokeswoman Leslie Scott said.
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Chicago aviation department spokesman Owen Kilmer said the TSA budgeted for 15 canine units at the two Chicago airports, which can cut wait times because dogs can sniff passengers for explosive materials, allowing them to be moved to a quicker line.
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...the Transportation Security Administration plans to hire nearly 800 new officers this month and pay for more part-time workers and overtime.
But the union that represents security officers said that won't solve the problem, and that TSA needs 6,000 additional full-time officers to address a shortfall that has come as airlines are experiencing an increase in passengers.
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About 450 American Airlines customers at O'Hare International Airport missed flights Sunday due to lines of more than two hours, and dozens who couldn't get on a later flight slept on cots at the terminal, American spokeswoman Leslie Scott said.
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Chicago aviation department spokesman Owen Kilmer said the TSA budgeted for 15 canine units at the two Chicago airports, which can cut wait times because dogs can sniff passengers for explosive materials, allowing them to be moved to a quicker line.
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May 16, 2016 | 7:42 pm
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Anyway, the point is - the slowdown wasn't unexpected. It didn't just "appear." It was planned long in advance, and anticipated.
May 16, 2016 | 8:13 pm
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TSA employees displaying typical TSA professionalism.
TSA employees displaying typical TSA professionalism.
May 16, 2016 | 9:11 pm
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Lots of parents don't think it through; they're convinced that having their kids' fingerprints taken is some kind of a hedge against abduction. The faulty reasoning is, "if someone steals my child, the fingerprints will prove it's mine and I'll get it back!" The fault in that, of course, is that if you need fingerprints to identify a child, it's either because the child is too young to identify their own parents, is non-verbal due to a condition such as autism, or because the child is dead. But parents simply don't think that way. They just think, fingerprints = safety.
May 16, 2016 | 10:52 pm
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Moderator's Note:
Please stay on topic (FT Rule 5), that is: Long TSA Lines.
If you wish to discuss the merits of enrolling kids in PreCheck or the wisdom of fingerprinting them, please start a new thread.
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If you wish to discuss the merits of enrolling kids in PreCheck or the wisdom of fingerprinting them, please start a new thread.
Thank you,
TWA884
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