Going no where fast for the holidays!
 

National news (CBS, I think) just did a segment on lines at ATL...5 hours, people missing flights even after being assured by airlines 2 hours was enough (didn't NW lower their recommendation to 90 minutes?)...of course what they don't go on to say is those people are probably out of luck. With reduced flight schedules and packed holiday planes, kiss your holiday destinations good bye...

And of course several shots of the rent-a-friskers ripping open these poor sheeples gifts with glee...

This is an embarrassment for Minetta, the FAA and the airlines. The witch-hunt for grannys with nailclippers is going to ruin the industry...the "appearance of security" may be cheap but it sure isn't efficient.

Glad I don't fly again until 1/8, my patience needs a break!

It takes time for the security people to unwrap all those gifts. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

On the way home tonight from Manhattan, the news said the delays at LaGuardia (didn't specify which terminal) were running four hours into security because of the fact that all the gifts had to be unwrapped.

What are people thinking? This is why the elite lines move so much faster. Even if you are at the end of a four hour line, couldn't somebody walk through and say unwrap your gifts?

Not only that, when the lines are that long they have to be outside for part of it, and it was cold today.

As the story says:

This holiday season, more than ever, in some cases, unwrapping gifts three separate times — at the counter, at security, and at the gate.

But they won't get an argument from holiday traveler Tin Woloszyn, even though airport security unwrapped ten of her gifts.

"I think they should have to go through it," she said. "For the security."

Lets see, O'hare is expecting 205,000 passengers through the terminals today. If each has ten wrapped gifts, that have to be gone through three times, it's easy to see why there are so many delays.