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It seems that SFO's policy of having an intermediate company that buffers salaries is working well because I flew through there to Taipei after this whole situa
by arjie 7mo ago
It seems that SFO's policy of having an intermediate company that buffers salaries is working well because I flew through there to Taipei after this whole situation and there was no wait.
- nubg 7mo agobuffers salaries?
- Someone1234 7mo agoA strange way of saying, not TSA at all, and handled by a private for-profit company instead.
- BobaFloutist 7mo agoNo, it's accurate, because TSA (or at least the feds) ultimately pay for it, but the company has some runway it can spend to keep the employees working on the assumption it'll be paid later, I.E. a buffer.
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- elromulous 7mo agoI _just_ went though the line. It wasn't too bad (5-10min, despite having bio ID), but it was by far the worst I've encountered at SFO in the decade I've been flying out of there.
- elromulous 7mo agoP.s. And as usual, TSA doesn't understand anything about queueing theory and doesn't implement round robin / starvation prevention. Global services and clear get absolute priority over other queues.
- 1986 7mo agoThat's a feature, not a bug
- NewJazz 7mo agoProbably because people are going via SFO when they might otherwise go via Oakland or elsewhere.
- ozi 7mo agoyeah SFO seems to be completely uneffected
- acdha 7mo agoIt’s an odd list of airports which contract their own security screeners. I’d bet a lot of places are going to consider joining that program: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/us/airports-without-tsa https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/us/airports-without-tsa
- Ferret7446 7mo agoI thought all of the lines went away after ICE came in? That's what I heard, but you can't trust the news these days. Either because ICE is more competent than TSA or their presence is scaring away a lot of people