If I can't drive there, I don't go there.
Thank goodness we don’t have to fly anymore.
More distortive media garbage.
Article implies snacks are being taken away, not allowed.
I would agree. The 1960s mentality of just driving cross-country seems to me to be the least stressful option, and more enjoyable.
Don’t fight any real foreign wars to decisive conclusion or put people in internment camps now. Gradually turn our country into a concentration camp, instead.
Not realizing that toothpaste was condidered a liquid, I went through 6 different flight screenings in as many countries in the past month with a large tube in my carry on when the 7th in Helsinki Finland caught it and made me dispose of it.
USA TSA Precheck is really great and worth the time to get if you travel at all. It’s far better than missing a flight.
The only point to this is to dehumanize the passengers. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this was a response to the call to attack Trump supporters. Except liberal whackadoodles fly, too.
I flew back in 2/2018. Having a connection, and knowning there was the possiblity of delays, I had a sandwitch, some snack packs of cookies, and tubes of powdered water drink mixes.
The airport I was at had started this "enhanced" screening, and I had to put everything into individual trays. so ... laptop, digital camera + batteries and charging stuff, sandwich+cookies+drink mixes, backpack, jacket, and shoes.
6 trays!
Then, at the end, they pulled the trays of food stuff, and they swabbed the powdered drink mixes tubes, and the packages of cookies for explosive residue
Slowed everything down and added at least 10 minutes between putting things in trays, swabbing stuff, then repacking everything, not including the time in line.
Multiply this by the number of passengers, and the TSA will be demanding extra people be hired to work for the TSA to speed this up, and do kabuki theatre in the name of security.
And of course, they will be union members.
I paid for five years of TSA Precheck and it is worth every penny. No taking off shoes, no separating liquids from carryon, no long line to wait in.
For me, 16 years ago: I drive where I want to go.
If the plane is to blown up, "they'll" find a way to do it.
Thanks George!
Just profile. Do what EL AL airlines does.
Our last flight, they removed a protein bar from my laptop case, intact in its wrapper, and scanned it in a machine of some sort.
Soon they’ll ban snacks too.
Next you will be issued a towel, board naked and then be reunited with your clothes once on board.
Scam by the airlines/airport vendors who now make you purchase snacks or buy inside airport
Bulk explosives look exactly the same as organic powdered food or pastes on the scanners. A six pack of toothpaste could easily be a six pack of C4 with a twist top.
Carry all your snacks is one carry on, or put it all in a check on. Then let them swab it.
TSA is the only thing between you and jihadi, a scary thought if you contemplate it.
Every time I go through TSA, I'm reminded why I hate muslims. When we fight in those muslim s**tholes, we should make it policy to achieve highest body count possible. I miss the days when we counted corpses.
I’ve flown alot in last few years - I started realizing when they would pull me aside for nuts, lemons, sandwich etc I happen to have in carryon so I just automatically take out bag of liquids and anything else I have with me that I think is questionable. I don’t get pulled aside for my carryon items anymore but recently absentmindedly wore a t-shirt with metal on it - that lead to a clothed pat down by TSA so I will be more conscious of clothing choice going forward.
I’d rather they screen because they can possibly thwart true attack - but many screeners remind me of super market employees - just hangin around looking busy but not really working - putting in hours for a paycheck not real concerned for actual purpose of job or timeliness of their work to help customer.