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It's interesting how they mostly got a pass this past holiday travel season. Barely saw anything about them. So even the media is looking the other way now.

by ck2 13y ago

jonknee 13y ago
Why would it be a big story? It has been a dozen years.
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silencio 13y ago
I feel like TSA is relaxing some of the security measures, just a bit - perhaps so there is no major media outrage so people will still trust them. Here and there there have been times my fiancé has not been made to take everything off and get a patdown. Scanners feel like they're decreasing in number so you can at least try to pick the metal detector lines again. That might just be me with my TSA PreCheck and recent international non-US-destined flying talking though. Protip: fly business/first class or be part of PreCheck and revel in the pre-9/11 style of security. You know, the one where I wore all my jewelry, a sweater, and my boots through the metal detector, set it off, and the TSA agent just waved me through with a smile. Where I also didn't empty my water bottle or unpack anything at all - in fact, told not to even think about unpacking. Oh I feel so safe!
- jonhohle 13y ago
  My typical airports have completely eliminated metal detector only lines except for Pre✓™. Pre✓™ seems like extortion - I have a passport, DHS has my fingerprints (for unrelated reasons). Why should I jump through additional hoops, and give them more money for something that they've already collected from me? If they really wanted to know if I was a flight risk, wouldn't they have already used all of the information they already know about me? If not, why!?
- jff 13y ago
  It may just be profiling since I'm a middle-class white male, but I've been waved into the pre-check line several times despite flying coach and not signing up for anything special. Shoes on, drop your stuff on the conveyor belt and move along. It was great. That's how security should be all the time. It might not be solely profiling, because my girlfriend, who is clearly Indian, has also been sent into the precheck line when flying alone. Even in the regular lines, I can't think of the last time it took more than 15 minutes to get through security, and I usually opt out every time too.
Consultant32452 13y ago
I traveled in mid-December (between the holiday peaks) and I was able to enjoy a new "expedited security process we're testing" that was essentially the old metal detector only screening.
ksherlock 13y ago
The TSA removed the backscatter machines as of June 2013. There are millimeter wave machines in use but I've only seen x-ray machines lately. (And not one terrorist incident on any of those flights...) Some of their rules are dumb but that was my biggest complaint.

It's interesting how they mostly got a pass this past holiday travel season. Barely saw anything about them. So even the media is looking the other way now.

by ck2 13y ago

It's interesting how they mostly got a pass this past holiday travel season. Barely saw anything about them. So even the media is looking the other way now.

jonknee 13y ago

Why would it be a big story? It has been a dozen years.

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silencio 13y ago

I feel like TSA is relaxing some of the security measures, just a bit - perhaps so there is no major media outrage so people will still trust them. Here and there there have been times my fiancé has not been made to take everything off and get a patdown. Scanners feel like they're decreasing in number so you can at least try to pick the metal detector lines again. That might just be me with my TSA PreCheck and recent international non-US-destined flying talking though. Protip: fly business/first class or be part of PreCheck and revel in the pre-9/11 style of security. You know, the one where I wore all my jewelry, a sweater, and my boots through the metal detector, set it off, and the TSA agent just waved me through with a smile. Where I also didn't empty my water bottle or unpack anything at all - in fact, told not to even think about unpacking. Oh I feel so safe!

jonhohle 13y ago
My typical airports have completely eliminated metal detector only lines except for Pre✓™. Pre✓™ seems like extortion - I have a passport, DHS has my fingerprints (for unrelated reasons). Why should I jump through additional hoops, and give them more money for something that they've already collected from me? If they really wanted to know if I was a flight risk, wouldn't they have already used all of the information they already know about me? If not, why!?
jff 13y ago
It may just be profiling since I'm a middle-class white male, but I've been waved into the pre-check line several times despite flying coach and not signing up for anything special. Shoes on, drop your stuff on the conveyor belt and move along. It was great. That's how security should be all the time. It might not be solely profiling, because my girlfriend, who is clearly Indian, has also been sent into the precheck line when flying alone. Even in the regular lines, I can't think of the last time it took more than 15 minutes to get through security, and I usually opt out every time too.

Consultant32452 13y ago

I traveled in mid-December (between the holiday peaks) and I was able to enjoy a new "expedited security process we're testing" that was essentially the old metal detector only screening.

ksherlock 13y ago

The TSA removed the backscatter machines as of June 2013. There are millimeter wave machines in use but I've only seen x-ray machines lately. (And not one terrorist incident on any of those flights...) Some of their rules are dumb but that was my biggest complaint.