[SmartInsight]

Vote in this poll.

Currently Yes is 97%

[EternalVigilance]

These days I drive.

[allmost]

I’ve seen half this country. Including the entire stretch of US 1. I don’t mind driving.

[bboop]

How about this? WE are the clients. We pay for the privilege of flying, and the grubby TSA thugs turn around and man-handle us. There’s a real business-killing strategy.

[bboop]

How about this? WE are the clients. We pay for the privilege of flying, and the grubby TSA thugs turn around and man-handle us. There’s a real business-killing strategy.

[ladyvet]

Just did a 13 each way trip by car. Books on tape, coffee and cruise control beats crowds, perverts and overbooking any day.

[steveo]

Should be a “hell yes” option.

[x1stcav]

I only fly if it is an absolute emergency and haven’t since August of last year. I went through a stretch in 2003-2006 when I flew twice. This is quite a change for someone with over two million air miles under his belt. I made up my mind after 911 that I was going to put up with the PC’d security nonsense as little as possible.

I will endure the TSA thugs as little as possible.

[PERKY2004]

On Wednesday afternoon, I will board a plane and fly across country with my wonderful dear husband. We will spend two weeks together while he undergoes pre-deployment training at a USAF base, and then I will fly home, alone. (He will be traveling on to Iraq for his 7th deployment over there.)

NOTHING the T.S.A. does would prevent me from spending those two weeks with my husband before he deploys ~ though I'm saddened that the price of spending time with him will be full-body-scans or invasive/intrusive pat-downs of my most private parts.

This is not what he's fighting for.

[gunnyg]

First thing ya know only us Armed Forces will be eligible to fly...

[WestwardHo]

Just checked the totals:
97% represents 22,714
total votes: 23,482

[elpinta]

Poll looking good.

I am a ‘frequent driver’ and looking back at some International flying, I found better/professional staff at places like Rio, where a United guy was doing it the Israeli way... the questions, the look, the demeanor, really cool!

[Yaelle]

If the baggage guy outside on the sidewalk would do 5 to 10 for groping my little children’s crotches, then the TSA guy a few yards inside the door should too.

THERE IS NO WAY I WILL FLY if my children are subjected to this.

[Eye of Unk]

No flying for me unless its by charter.

[LibLieSlayer]

I will NEVER fly commercial again.

LLS

[Mister Da]

It's not just the pat downs & body scans.

It's also the long security lines, the multitude of prohibited items in carry-on, the cramped seats, & general discomfort of the entire experience.

When you have to get there 3 hours in advance, then sit at the gate for another hour while the stewardess auctions off seats in a full plane, that 3 hour flight becomes an all day nightmare. Driving is not nearly that aggravating.

[Cherrybark]

8PM Central, 11/14
Yes - 97%, 28360
No - 2%, 652
Undecided 1%, 360

[ExSES]

Fortunately, being a pilot, a fly myself when the need arises. Otherwise, I drive...

[Scrambler Bob]

How about a medical privacy defense?

You know, revealing medical information is forbidden.

So, my x-rays, prostheses, implants, etc., are private medical information!!

Will this fly (oops, no pun intended)?

[posterchild]

As much as I’d like to avoid a tsa probing, there are a lot of trips I cannot take by means other than aircraft. Of the trips I no longer fly I just don’t take them (i.e. stay home) rather than find alternate means of travel.

[Proud2BeRight]

We will be driving. I will not allow that to happen to my wife or let some government half-wit fondle my privates.