Posted on 05/27/2016 5:04:05 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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.
Union thuggery IMO. Wanting more money for even less effort.
Terrorists fit a PROFILE that goes something like this:
1. Middle Eastern Males between the ages of 18 and 40.
Pretty simple huh?
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!!
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!
Active duty, not vets.
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!
As is, everything this government does around "airline security" is complete BULLSHIT.
PROFILING WORKS --- ask the Israeli's.
Agreed—we go thru security screening, yet illegals are streaming across the border unchecked and refugees are being flown in unvetted !!
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.
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.
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