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Kansas City Airport doesn't use TSA screeners, they have a private contractor doing the screening: https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/screening-partnerships http
by tuna-piano 9y ago
Kansas City Airport doesn't use TSA screeners, they have a private contractor doing the screening:
https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/screening-partnerships https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/screening-partnerships
That said, it seems like this policy is likely a TSA imposed pilot program:
https://thepointsguy.com/2017/05/paper-products-new-tsa-security/ https://thepointsguy.com/2017/05/paper-products-new-tsa-secu...
- exabrial 9y agoI don't believe this is true, how does one tell? They appear to be TSA agents, in the blue uniforms with the TSA badges
- tuna-piano 9y agoIt's true. Turns out blue shirts can be worn by just about anybody. Here's a story from last summer about the private security at Kansas City Airport: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article79795177.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article79795177.html
- exabrial 9y agoGood find!
- bogomipz 9y agoOh interesting. I am curious is the experience of the privatized screening any better? Or is the amount of humiliation, infantilizing and browbeating of regular honest people about the same as the non-privatized TSA? There was big uproar about privatizing the TSA about a year ago when the time spent in lines was growing even more excessive. That narrative about privatizing seemed to go dark. Is the Kansas City Airport itself a pilot program for privatization of the TSA?
- madengr 9y agoYes; I live in KC. The ones in MCI are polite, as opposed to Baltimore where they strut around barking orders. Of course MCI had a distributed security and gates, so they are smaller and thus quieter.
- exabrial 9y agoYeah I think the distributed security has a lot to do with customer satisfaction. The horseshoe design is really efficient for plane parking and the drop/pickup. Unfortunately, it's terrible for logistics like transfers :/
- madengr 9y agoI think it's the best airport in the country. I can get from plane to car in 3 minutes. But yes, transferring airlines would be a pain, though flights on the same airline are usually within the same security zone. Unfortunately the KC politicians keep scheming to build a new one. Fortunately the population wants to keep it.
- unclefishbits 9y agoPortland are TSA. SF is subcontracted. In my experience on the west coast, the real TSA blow the pants off the subcontracted ones. Portland is AAAAAaaamazing
- throwaway287391 9y agoSFO also doesn't have TSA screeners, and I believe the agents' uniforms actually don't have TSA badges. (Not sure about Kansas City, but I'd be surprised if any non-TSA agents had TSA badges...)
- madengr 9y agoTheir uniforms say First Line.