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Reimagine TSA to protect travelers
We should consider what to do about the excruciatingly long security screening lines at airports around the country that have resulted in thousands of passengers missing their flights. Travelers have every right to be frustrated and angry at yet another government failure. (www.usatoday.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Mike, there is a $5.60 Security Fee imposed on each flight segment domestic and international. Knowing the way the government treats revenue, I believe the Security Fee revenue goes into the overall TSA Operating Budget and not earmarked for airport security. It supports the bloated admin tail of the Agency, other costs and then the crumbs go to airport security. New leadership and consequences for underperformance by any TSA employee need to be implemented.
I agree, don't lower the cost of PreCheck to travelers. It will lead to the program being much less efficient.
I agree, don't lower the cost of PreCheck to travelers. It will lead to the program being much less efficient.
Well said. $85 dollars for 5 years is peanuts. Heck, you can't even get any airlines "Preferred" treatment for anything close to that. Even if someone only flies once a year, it's still money well spent. I think the problem is apathy on the part of most Americans - they don't want to have to go get fingerprinted (and I'm sure the conspiracy nuts think it's a plan to track all of our movements)!
Right. Because if there's A) Management, and B) a Union, and C) a problem, then the problem must be due to the existence of the union! And you haven't been so thoroughly immersed in propaganda for 35 years that you can't think anymore...
The union is not going anywhere without a change in government for the union dues in part end up in the coffers of the party in power...money laundering if you like. Privatization essentially removes employees and union from that relationship by ending employment.
Look at it this way, think how awkward the TSA agent feels having to check you. Imagine how they would feel if they didn't and something got through. We want to be safe but we don't want to be inconvenienced? Next time the TSA agent has to inspect you, put yourself in their shoes. Now pretend you have to deal with you whinny self. Get over yourself people. These people are serving the nation. Blaming them is like blaming the soldiers that were sent to Viet-Nam. Cooperate and support these folks who have a hard enough job to do trying to keep you safe.
(1) It's not that travellers don't want to spend $25 to check in a bag (big airlines usually don't charge that), but that the passengers don't want to wait 30 minutes for their bags after arriving! Perhaps the airlines should hire enough baggages handlers such that the bags are there and waiting for the passengers by the time the passengers get to the baggage carousel. Speed that up, and then no one will want to deal with carrying a bag onboard. (2) much, much longer tables are needed before the x-ray machine at TSA to allow passengers more time to pull out their liquid baggies and computers etc. This is a cheap fix. (3) Families with kids, babies... and less abled person, and those with special scanning needs or questions need a separate line to avoid holding up everyone else. (4) Assign boarding priority according to who has the least luggage then those with most luggage might end up having to gate-check their bag anyway.
Reducing the cost of PreCheck is a ridiculous idea as well. I paid the $85 and it WAS well worth it. If everyone including vacationers with 19 kids are in the line, it will be slower overall for everyone.
TSA, IRS targeting (remember the smirking Koskinen being questioned by Congress), and VA Hospital, government services are a joke overall and not getting better by any measure.