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If you have you flown domestically in other countries (such as Japan), you'll be surprised how easy and fast it is. It was like the 90s in the U.S.
by dmak 11y ago
If you have you flown domestically in other countries (such as Japan), you'll be surprised how easy and fast it is. It was like the 90s in the U.S.
- rayiner 11y agoI don't remember it really being any better in the 90's. The only difference was you walked through a metal detector instead of a millimeter wave machine.
- mikeash 11y agoAnd you could bring a drink and keep your shoes on and nobody was swabbing and bomb testing your toothpaste. The cumulative effect made the lines move about four times faster. Edit: I think there's also a lot of inefficiency. So often I see a huge line, half the equipment sitting idle, and half the TSA agents standing around talking to each other. I don't remember that sort of thing in the before times. Maybe because the security people were employed by private companies motivated to get their money's worth.
- azakai 11y agoTrue. If you get TSA Pre, though, then you get something very much like the 90's experience.
- baby 11y agoBut then you are giving money to the TSA.
- epoxyhockey 11y agoPlus fingerprints and the benefit of being entered into another government database. There is also no guarantee that the precheck line will be open at the airport for the time you visit.
- pklausler 11y ago+1 for TSA Pre-Check. Also, Global Entry. Well worth the trouble to apply for.
- marak830 11y agoIs it that bad over there now? I have never flown domesic in the us, i mean i had heard it was bad, but i had assumed tey were just the worst of the worst horror stories.
- rayiner 11y agoI just took a flight DCA - ORD the other day. Stood in line maybe 5-6 minutes. I regularly get sub-10 minute trips through security at BWI. I think people confuse airport congestion with security holdups. Carry-on x-rays have been mandated for a very long time (long before 9/11). And people always had to walk one-at-a-time through the metal detectors. What's happened over the last 25 years or so is a massive increase in air travel in the U.S., without a corresponding increase in airport capacity.
- baby 11y agoI went to ORD 7 times this last year, plus went there to pick up people 6 other times. I think maybe once I didn't have to wait for more than 30min. Also waited 3 hours for someone to cross the border last time I was there (obviously non-american, after she had spent 13 hours in a plane). This is just backwards. > Carry-on x-rays have been mandated for a very long time You didn't have to wait so much. You didn't have to go barefoot. You didn't have to go through the "get naked" machine.
- Grue3 11y agoI flew domestically in Japan, Sapporo - Tokyo. It was pretty bad, I almost missed the plane standing in the super-long line to registration. To be fair, I think it's considered to be one of the most congested domestic routes in the world. But especially in Japan I'd take train over plane any time.