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Originally Posted by SATTSO (Post 14458514)

You don't think they might say to themselves "if it improves security it's worth it!"

Wow. You really have ingested large volumes of TSA kool-aid, haven't you?

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Originally Posted by Boggie Dog (Post 14447212)

Do you think MOC go through the regular security lines that we lowly citizens have to put up with?

Except in rare occasions they ALL do (but can be escorted

through the employees line)

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Originally Posted by SATTSO (Post 14458458)

They do go through security, but very seldom do their receive the services you describe. There are a few who do receive benefits, though.

Maybe at your airport. Can you speak to DCA (where they still get special parking...)

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Originally Posted by halls120 (Post 14458566)

Wow. You really have ingested large volumes of TSA kool-aid, haven't you?

If you think so. But, really, for the most part Congress seems to support the use of these machines fairly well. After 12/25 it was Congress who mandated TSAnto put these machines everywhere - in the name of security. So I think what I said is a very real possibility.

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Originally Posted by Global_Hi_Flyer (Post 14459181)

Maybe at your airport. Can you speak to DCA (where they still get special parking...)

Special parking? What does that have to do with TSA? And I'm sure the MOC get special parking at SAT, too.

But I've actually worked at more than a few airports, and have seen more than a handful of MOC fly, all proceeding through the checkpoint. The only times I have seen or heard otherwise is from this site, or a few scattered news stories.

I flew out of DCA this afternoon (DL concourse) and the security lines were backed up all the way to the Cibo Bistro restaurant. It took me an hour to get through the Elite/Medallion line. I was told by the lead TSA person that the lines have been really bad at that concourse since UA moved there. I used to fly out of that concourse 2x/week for years and it never took me more than 5 minutes to clear security. My how things have changed in the few weeks that I have not been flying out of DCA. Are the lines really that bad all of the time now? I also was not pleased to see a Nude-O-Scope machine in the middle lane of the concourse now. It makes it much harder to self-select out of the machines.

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Originally Posted by SATTSO (Post 14458514)

I mean, it was congress who without TSA asking, threw money at them for hundreds and hundreds if these machines.

And the manufacturers of these machines were silent benificiaries of this congressional action-- they were just as shocked as TSA when the orders came out. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by sahara (Post 19036166)

I also was not pleased to see a Nude-O-Scope machine in the middle lane of the concourse now. It makes it much harder to self-select out of the machines.

I believe that you have identified the reason the lines are slower.

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Originally Posted by sahara (Post 19036166)

Delta's a CF unless you have precheck. Strangely this Thursday American was a breeze (WTMD only). I wonder if it was because a bunch of congress morons were cutting in line and blabbing about their bill. They pissed a lot of people off but I was grateful that the nude-o-scope was turned off.

P.S. a pilot also held things up because he wanted to bring his set of 5lb weights through. :confused: