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Vanity. Airport wait lines.
05.27.2016 | Moi

Posted on 05/27/2016 5:04:05 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

You know, I fly commercial two times per month to see my father. He's 85 and a veteran. I'm 50 and a veteran. I now have the indistinct pleasure of standing in line up to 4 hours for a three hour flight. I did not have to do this before 9-11.

Okay, there was a little incident 4 years ago when I asked a TSA agent what made him get a job where he got to touch other men all day...

Nonetheless, before the current administration, the airports did not suck half as bad.

Something has been lost. Something needs to be done. The airports SUCK!


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To: bushwon

My wife and I were worried about that...Pre would immediately become too popular and the lines would swell. That seems to have happened within the first year.

Maybe we paid $85 - Mrs. POF paid for them when we signed up.


41 posted on 05/28/2016 3:16:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Rummyfan
The bigger question is why is TSA causing these delays at certain airports?

Union thuggery IMO. Wanting more money for even less effort.

42 posted on 05/28/2016 3:24:48 AM PDT by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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To: ameribbean expat
Something needs to be done alright, it's called PROFILING!!

Terrorists fit a PROFILE that goes something like this:

1. Middle Eastern Males between the ages of 18 and 40.

Pretty simple huh?

43 posted on 05/28/2016 3:27:18 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: bushwon
I wonder if the Precheck lines will swell from all the recent travelers granted pre-check.

As intended. Follow the $$$.

Then, when a terrorist that's not on the no fly list manages to skirt the pre-check process that'll go away.

PROFILING. That's what's needed. Everything else is just window dressing to mollify the flying public into thinking the Government is doing something about the problem, when in fact our Government has FAILED US since 9-11-01 by kissing Islamic ass!!

44 posted on 05/28/2016 3:29:41 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: PAR35
A flight in and out of Boston might re-order your list of really bad airports.

Logan has been #1 on my list of the worst airports in the world since my first flight out of there in 1993.

Of all the times I've flown in and out of there, none of my flights were ever on time. NEVER. What a horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE airport (and getting there isn't any fun either.)

Love Boston as a town but DAAAAAYYYYYYUUUUUMMMMMM that airport sucks eggs!

45 posted on 05/28/2016 3:32:20 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Secret Agent Man

Active duty, not vets.


46 posted on 05/28/2016 4:50:29 AM PDT by Gamecock ( Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...Matthew 10:28)
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To: usconservative

I live in Chicagoland—been constant news coverage of the heinous lines at both Midway and O’hare. My 2 closest friends hurried off to the TSA pre-check screening offices to pay their $85 and get finger printed.

As I stated before...2 of my family members received pre-check randomly on their tickets but had not paid or gone thru the interview process. They had a 6:00 a.m. flight out of O’hare a week ago, May 20, and they said they got thru pre-check in 15 minutes, however, had they gone regular TSA, they would have missed flight.

Seems TSA told everyone to be at airport at least 3 hours early, problem is that TSA does not arrive at airport until 4:00 a.m. and neither do most airlines, so there was a large backup at TSA before they even opened.

So I have mixed emotions about paying for pre-check when I have heard that it is not a guarantee (tho I did hear the World Traveler was more of guarantee for $100). I also don’t like more government data-basing, and I do wonder if lines for pre-check will swell over next few months ...

The pre-check screening is being farmed out to private companies, I don’t know why airports and airlines didn’t insist on privatizing TSA—instead they are now union—and so no incentive for efficiency except that now the news media and general public is screaming for it, so something might get done.

How would you seen profiling being instituted? Again, I worry about more data collection of private, law-abiding citizens—As with Conceal Carry—the law abiding citizens are providing all the information, it is the criminals who don’t and purchase illegal weapons!


47 posted on 05/28/2016 9:39:44 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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To: bushwon
My point was simple: you and I shouldn't HAVE to go through such extensive "screening" processes since we KNOW who the terrorists are and what their profile is.

As is, everything this government does around "airline security" is complete BULLSHIT.

PROFILING WORKS --- ask the Israeli's.

48 posted on 05/28/2016 9:41:50 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

Agreed—we go thru security screening, yet illegals are streaming across the border unchecked and refugees are being flown in unvetted !!


49 posted on 05/28/2016 9:43:23 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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To: ameribbean expat

I fly two-four times a year. I’ve noticed even some of the smaller airports are much slower. Normally it woud take 20 minutes, last week it took almost 40.


50 posted on 05/28/2016 9:58:39 AM PDT by matt04
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To: ameribbean expat

NBC News seems to report on the long TSA lines nightly. It’s like the same report every day.

EXCEPT the other day.

Then halfway through the usual report, they brought up some services which - supposedly - allow people to breeze through screening (if many people start going for this option, the wait times are bound to get longer).

One is a type of pre-screening “ez pass” for around $80 or $90.

Then there is a second option, in which the passenger’s fingerprint or retinal scan is used, for around $150, I believe.

The report made me wonder if the long wait times might have been engineered to get people to go for these services.


51 posted on 05/28/2016 5:05:54 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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