DEN color-coded lanes
Mar 20, 2008 | 11:10 am
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DEN color-coded lanes
9NEWS timed a few travelers passing through a checkpoint in the late morning. Families in the green lane cleared security in 11 or 12 minutes. Black diamond travelers usually were through in a minute or so less. A few of the expert travelers were forced to wait up to 20 minutes while TSA agents gave their carry-on bags a more rigorous search.
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Mar 20, 2008 | 11:12 am
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Seriously, 20 minutes for a bag check is ridiculous, but there is no reason to believe that any of the three lanes would be exempt.
Mar 20, 2008 | 11:21 am
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Mar 20, 2008 | 11:26 am
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So do these color codes mean that if I am travelling with my family, I am forced to use the "slow lane"? We obviously fly enough that we are certainly not a cause for delay to others.
So why would anyone go in the slow lanes, if not forced? Seems strange. This is now being trialed in BOS in terminal A. As one newspaper column put it, Boston has a culture in which in a traffic jam, you drive the breakdown lane to get around the jam, ignoring the others stuck in the traffic. Why should we be different going through screening?
So why would anyone go in the slow lanes, if not forced? Seems strange. This is now being trialed in BOS in terminal A. As one newspaper column put it, Boston has a culture in which in a traffic jam, you drive the breakdown lane to get around the jam, ignoring the others stuck in the traffic. Why should we be different going through screening?
Mar 20, 2008 | 11:37 am
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So why would anyone go in the slow lanes, if not forced? Seems strange. This is now being trialed in BOS in terminal A. As one newspaper column put it, Boston has a culture in which in a traffic jam, you drive the breakdown lane to get around the jam, ignoring the others stuck in the traffic. Why should we be different going through screening?
Mar 20, 2008 | 11:55 am
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You didn't, but the way it was phrased your question somewhat implied that it didn't make sense that the black diamond lanes would have long secondaries. I was just pointing out that they could happen to any of the lanes; in this case the author of the article commented on them in the black lane.