Extortioncheck enrollment centers opening inside of Staples stores
Oct 3, 2018, 1:43 pm
#16
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: An NPR mind living in a Fox News world
Posts: 14,165
FTE is government-eze for full-time equivalent, meaning belly buttons. It's mostly used to describe a contractor level of effort and not federal government personnel slots. For example, two contractors working 1/2 time = 1 FTE. Some TSA clerks do work part-time, but that's generally down to get around Congressionally-mandated personnel ceilings. You have to pay full benefits to any fed working at least 32 hours.
Oct 3, 2018, 1:51 pm
#17
Suspended
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: DCA
Programs: UA US CO AA DL FL
Posts: 50,262
It's "amazing" that the most well-oiled ExtortionCheck screening operations are at Reagan National and Dulles. In addition to senior administration officials and members of congress who , the ExtortionCheck lines are full of feds with Global Entry, active duty military & DoD civilians who get ExtortionCheck for free with their CACs. Then, when things get out of hand at Dulles during the afternoon rush hour, the doggies magically appear in the Pornoscope lines and the back-up disappears when the Proletariat gets free ExtortionCheck-for-a-day. It's a big enough joke here in the National Capital region. I can't imagine what it's like in the rest of the U.S.A..
FTE is government-eze for full-time equivalent, meaning belly buttons. It's mostly used to describe a contractor level of effort and not federal government personnel slots. For example, two contractors working 1/2 time = 1 FTE. Some TSA clerks do work part-time, but that's generally down to get around Congressionally-mandated personnel ceilings. You have to pay full benefits to any fed working at least 32 hours.
FTE is government-eze for full-time equivalent, meaning belly buttons. It's mostly used to describe a contractor level of effort and not federal government personnel slots. For example, two contractors working 1/2 time = 1 FTE. Some TSA clerks do work part-time, but that's generally down to get around Congressionally-mandated personnel ceilings. You have to pay full benefits to any fed working at least 32 hours.
Oct 3, 2018, 2:06 pm
#18
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: An NPR mind living in a Fox News world
Posts: 14,165
Federal appropriations are also written in FTE and POS (positions). Thus, aat TSA a full-time TSA Officer would encumber one FTE and one POS. Two half-time Officers would be one FTE and two POS. Clerks -- not sure why you single them out -- or any other person employed by an agency of the US would be appropriated in the same manner.
Oct 3, 2018, 6:31 pm
#19
Suspended
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: DCA
Programs: UA US CO AA DL FL
Posts: 50,262
Unless somebody else posted and then deleted a reference to DOE, I'm not sure what you are talking about. My post responds to the suggestion that the term "FTE" is used for contractors only, when it is, in fact, used in the DHS appropriation for TSA to hire Officers (and I suppose, clerks, although I have no idea what that reference is about in a discussion of Pre-Check).
Nov 4, 2018, 10:18 am
#20
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 3,526
Airline stocks higher due to PreCheck?
Not so sure that I'm buying it.
https://www.usglobaletfs.com/insight...-technologies/
When TSA PreCheck became available to the public in December 2013 and made a widespread rollout in 2014-2015, it coincided with major airlines taking off, as seen in the chart below. By reducing wait times at airport security check points, TSA PreCheck led to increased passenger satisfaction, which coincided with higher travel demand. International Air Transport Association (IATA) research shows that the number of passengers worldwide increased every year from 2013 to 2017, from 3.1 billion to 4.1 billion.
Jan 28, 2019, 9:15 am
#22
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: DFW
Posts: 28,132
Last time I looked there was ONE Pre Check enrollment center in the whole of the Dallas city limits. One at DFW airport and a a couple of others scattered around the general DFW metroplex. That tells me that TSA isn't really serious about getting people signed up.
