In the last two weeks I went through checkpoints just like this in Toronto and London.
Five people preparing for security at the same time. Not one person at a time like in the US. People like me who enter the line prepared just have to throw their bag on the belt and move. People like my mother can take all day and not gum up the works.
Leave it to private industry here to implement efficiency, not the people who run security, the VA and want to run all health care.
A prime directive under the government is to employ more people, so inefficincy is rewarded. The income stream is bottomless, there is no cost pressure, no competitor, no profit motive.
Industry has a totally different view of the balance between capital investment and direct labor.
Love the old ladies who don’t realize that wearing three gold bracelets on each arm is going to cause a problem.
You will walk through at least 2-3 nodes on the way to your gate. Some of them are quite obviously built-in metal detectors; others you may not even be aware are there.
When you are seated in the boarding area, petite eye candy in the form of lovely uniformed female guards are walking around asking your permission to wand you or your carry-on luggage. They are so polite about it that the average male passenger is probably thinking "Please, please, let her approach me!"
Sorry, they didn’t build that. The government secretly did, but not that the cat’s out of the bag, obama can take full credit.