[NJ_gent]

"Like airplanes? So far, so good..."

You could have said the same thing on September 11th, 2001 up until about 8:45am. My experience with airport security - rather, the lack thereof - since September 11th has left me with the notion that the only thing standing between us and more plane hijackings are unarmed passengers with a will to live. The TSA needs to quit acting like a typical government do-nothing agency and put some decent security in place. For starters, try hiring competent people; not 80 year old women who couldn't read the name on my ticket and didn't bother even glancing at my ID but let me go anyway despite the fact that my ticket had gotten mixed up with a friend's.

[Elyse]

My experience with airport security - rather, the lack thereof - since September 11th has left me with the notion that the only thing standing between us and more plane hijackings are unarmed passengers with a will to live. The TSA needs to quit acting like a typical government do-nothing agency and put some decent security in place.

I'm a frequent flyer and I understand your concern because I have seen exactly what you describe. I think that it is an unreal expectation to believe that we could ever find these perfect people that would be alert and follow procedure 100% of the time, though. I think you could have all high paid college graduates working the lines and you would still have an equal number of screw-ups.

[okie01]

For starters, try hiring competent people; not 80 year old women who couldn't read the name on my ticket and didn't bother even glancing at my ID...

The TSA:
Making jobs for easily bored people since 9/11/01.