NYC Airports: We Can No Longer Tolerate TSA's 'Inadequacy'

ABC ^ | May 10, 2016 | David Kerley

[george76]

Management of the New York City area’s three major airports is fed up with long lines at security check points, and they have given the Transportation Security Administration an ultimatum: Either shorten the lines or we’ll find someone else to do it.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, tasked with running John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports, is threatening to privatize the process of screening passengers before boarding their flight, according to a document sent from the Port Authority to TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger.

“We can no longer tolerate the continuing inadequacy of the TSA passenger services,

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The patience of the flying public has reached a breaking point,” the letter reads. Passenger wait times have "risen dramatically in recent months, prompting angry complaints from passengers, terminal operators, and airlines alike citing inconvenience, delayed flights, and missed flight connections

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The busiest airport in the country, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, made a similar threat in February.

There are less than two-dozen airports currently using private screening. Most of these airports are very small. However, there are exceptions.

San Francisco International Airport and Kansas City International Airport both have private firms handling a significant amount of passengers. These firms must meet the same standards and protocols as TSA and pay officers at least what TSA pays.

[dljordan]

“Sooner or later, the people with private aviation licenses are going to understand that a license to fly is a license to steal.”

It’s against the rules for a private pilot to operate for hire. You can ask them to help pay for fuel.

[bert]

TSA is extorting the public

The practice is union black mail

[johniegrad]

Shouldn’t the airlines required to not exceed the capacity of the screeners?

Have you actually thought that question through?

[Prov1322]

I dislike flying, but when I have to, I can only fly out of Atlanta. If it is less than a 7-1/2 to 8 hour drive, it is faster driving when you add up all of the delays and problems setting up luggage for TSA’s scanning and handling.

I'm with you on that. In recent days the braintrust at ATL has now started advising domestic passengers to arrive 3 hours before flight...

Get to the airport three hours early? Here’s why

After all these years a reasonable person would conclude that some degree of efficiency would have been injected into the TSA system. However, the combination of Federal Government and Unions have ensured that no degree of efficiency will ever be developed.

I used to love flying...

[Joe Boucher]

No difference between TSA and every other absolutely worthless gub mint agency.
Leaches all.

[Comment Not Approved]

How on earth can you consider that it is the fault of anything other than the government (tsa)? You need another thinking cap ... the one you have isn’t working too well.

[1Old Pro]

Privatize, the TSA “workers” are inadequate becuae they are taking 1 hour lunch breaks and additional “breaks”.

Let them eat their sandwich in 5 minutes at their station/desk like I do.

[cymbeline]

“How on earth can you consider that it is the fault of anything other than the government (tsa)? “

TSA (the government) may be at fault but I’m wondering if the TSA and the airlines and airports stipulated a certain level of traffic, and TSA staffed to support that level, and then travel demand exceeded that level.

I’d think that each airport has a screening capacity and that the airlines must limit their ticket selling to stay within that capacity.

[Godzilla]

perhaps if they spent more time at the screening stations and less in the food court. . . . .

[cymbeline]

“Have you actually thought that question through? “

Please give your thoughts. My other post on this subject contains a little more “thinking through”.

[DouglasKC]

Number of terrorists caught by TSA agents since inception = 0

[Lazamataz]

Management of the New York City area’s three major airports is fed up with long lines at security check points, and they have given the Transportation Security Administration an ultimatum: Either shorten the lines or we’ll find someone else to do it.

San Francisco International Airport and Kansas City International Airport both have private firms handling a significant amount of passengers. These firms must meet the same standards and protocols as TSA and pay officers at least what TSA pays.

Obama has a simple solution to all this: Ban private screeners and make TSA mandatory.

[Carl Vehse]

These delays are deliberate Incompetence could not coordinate these security FUBARs in so many different airports.

Traitorcongress will, of course, do nothing other than rearrange some deckchairs.

[upchuck]

2016 is the twentieth year since I last flew. I’m just getting started.

I agree with Robert A. Cook, PE above in number 11: drive instead of fly. Enjoy the natural beauty of our awesome country.

[Uncle Miltie]

Tsa level performance is available in any state run enterprise, like the Tarriff Department. What could possibly go wrong?

[Iron Munro]

TSA MISSION CREEP

TSA says it needs more money.

So why is the Transportation Security Administration providing check-in security at political rallies?

What do political rallies have to do with transportation?

Just Google “tsa security at political rallies”

[Teacher317]

There are less than two-dozen airports currently using private screening. Most of these airports are very small. However, there are exceptions. San Francisco International Airport and Kansas City International Airport both have private firms handling a significant amount of passengers.

KC's airport (MCI) rarely has long waits in line for screening. I doubt I've ever stood in that line for more than 15-20 minutes, after dozens of flights.

Funny how not having all affirmative-action hires (who virtually cannot be fired) can make an enterprise more efficient.

[Blue Jays]

With many innocent travelers milling around just inside the terminal, how long before a radicalized Islamic terrorist simply arrives curbside in his/her sedan a detonates it there, instead?

It will still serve to spook people from the flying experience, even if it not a jetliner itself that is hijacked or destroyed. These delays are indeed puzzling.