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It'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://
by tuna-piano 9y ago
It'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