I guess I would start the business day earlier or stay later.

Yep, that's the solution.

I'll just tell my customers to be at the office at 7AM for a meeting cause I have to waste 2 hours at the Airport.

Yep, that will work.

The fantasy is that you can insert 65,000 people into the mix and give them a job of screening people for pointy objects and "explosives" and make them government employees, and somehow the only cost is what you pay them?

Everything about the air travel experience is much more time consuming than it was. And if I thought it would "prevent terrorism" I might be for it. But it does nothing except perhaps move some of the terrorism to other venues.

The costs include:

extra hours at the airport spent by pax, leading to lost income

slower turn times for airplanes, leading to higher costs and lower revenue for airlines, and lower taxes for the airport

more trips done by car, which take longer and take away still more time from productive uses

more business meetings missed, meaning fewer opportunities to get to know people face to face and therefore fewer business deals.

The costs could be in the tens of billions of dollars, quite easily. No calculus is made of this, of course, just as none is made of the effect of other silliness like the corporate income tax.

Now multiply that by 100 meetings and you're wasting 200 hours per year. What a brilliant solution!



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"Give me Liberty or give me Death." - Patrick Henry

I know!

I don't know what I was thinking before?