Rest easy, America, the TSA is on the job!
Cannot believe Americans put up with this bull$h!t.
I’ll drive, thank ya very much.
Let’s blame the Wright brothers. They invented the airplane and hence long lines. Also, they were white and must be guilty of using their white privilege to slow minorities down. /s
Rest easy, America, the TSA is on the job!
I just flew back to SF from Long Beach. My ticket declared TSA Pre-Check. Normally, I should just breeze through. But no, the TSA at Long Beach Airport is totally brain dead, and put me through multiple checks. Through the scanner, then a body check. As the TSA guy is groping my junk, he asks if it's my wallet. Yeah, right, I always put my wallet in my underwear. "Nope, my wallet's in my jacket on the conveyer." Idiots. The long lines there are totally due to idiot TSA workers, as I and other passengers were prepared and did our part (shoes and belts off, hands over our heads like victims being robbed of our dignity).
End the TSA, fire them all.
As a very frequent traveller part of this is correct.
There is blog after blog telling people how to “save money” while flying. These people usually don’t fly so forget all the parts that say 1 carryon bag. Instead, they will bring 5 or 10 grocery bags filled with snacks, candy, and water. Then, they will hold up the entire line because they never realized that the belt and shoes need to come off. AND all those bottles of water and hand cleaner get tossed out.
That being said. The TSA is pretty bad. Especially in the larger airports. You will see groups of them sitting around laughing and talking while nothing is moving in the line. There are many surely jerks and none of them care how long it takes or if you miss the flight. Honolulu is terrible. The big airports, Houston, Atlanta, DFW are all filled with “officers” that are terrible at everything. If TSA duties were privatized you can bet it would clean up real fast. Make them accountable. While air carriers aren’t known for their customer service no air carrier is going to tolerate treating customers this bad entering the airport. They wait until you’re on the plane.
From what I have seen, giving Indian nationals a line of their own would speed things up for the rest of us considerably. :)
Yeah, um, you know all those TSA regulations went in to effect, like last week. For some reason, we haven’t had these issues in the past fourteen years. Why now?
A week or two ago I heard that from time to time TSA people are pulled from their TSA airport jobs to staff liberal (Hillary, I believe) events. True? I don’t know.
A week or two ago I heard that from time to time TSA people are pulled from their TSA airport jobs to staff liberal (Hillary, I believe) events. True? I don’t know.
I understand what they mean. On a recent trip to Aruba I had to take a Nebulizer and my CPAP machine. One was in carry on and one has it own case. Had I been prepared I would have had the machine parts of those machines in one of their boxes. I put them through as is and it required a hand search and rescan of both my bags. I’m sure that my stupidity that day could have made someone miss their flight. I could have avoided this had I thought about the motors in the bags.
Yes waaay past time to shut er down.
What an enormous load of incompetent sh*t!
Had a preview of what is going on now at a number of the major airports last summer when I had gotten to the Hartford/Springfield Bradley International Airport when I was going to a Bible conference in PA. I go to the airport ahead of time, but there were LINES.
If I go back to the Bible, I will look at the Amtrak trains.
Few years ago, a Brit on vacation here bought 3 “cowboy” single action revolvers privately. Had no idea they were not permitted on aircraft. TSA at Orlando - Sanford airport never detected.
They have since been replaced by private screening firm.