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2006-12-09 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2006-12-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Do you get to keep your shoes on if you spend a certain amount at participating merchants?

I mean, we always knew TSA was a joke. This just makes it official.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-12-09 00:31|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-12-09 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Why would these f**kups do this now ??? It's hard enuff getting thru these lines as is. This would only quadruple the mess. Don't do this...pulleese.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-12-09 00:49|| 2006-12-09 00:49|| Front Page Top

#3 This is not an unreasonable plan *IF* they start profiling their screening. Then the majority of Americans can go unhindered about their normal business or family lives.

As someone who has spent a lot of time at airports both as a business traveler and meeting or seeing off relatives, not to mention actually being an airport screener back in my college days, I have always chaffed at the draconian measures instituted after flight 900 that were increased further after 9/11.

If you take a realistic profile of who is likely to be a hijacker/bomber and screen for that you reduce the workload to reasonable levels. That would not compromise security.

Posted by DanNY 2006-12-09 07:54|| 2006-12-09 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Screw security when there's money to be made.

That was the view of the airlines who were in charge of security before 9/11. Then after, no one flew and they had to be bailed out. Some of the airlines should have been allowed to die quickly as an example to others to see the penalty for the bean counting trading off costs mentality. So we ended up with TSA to 'instill' a sense of security, not necessarily install real security. The airlines want to go back to business as usual? No bail outs next time.

Posted by Procopius2k 2006-12-09 09:40|| 2006-12-09 09:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Just move the security gates beyond the major concessions, and don't allow non-passengers beyond that point. What's the big deal?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-09 15:10|| 2006-12-09 15:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Just move the security gates beyond the major concessions, and don't allow non-passengers beyond that point. What's the big deal?

Remember that 80 meter square footprint (second row, right-hand illustration) required by passenger jets? From what I remember of airport design, this forces significant branching to stagger the pull-ups at individual jetway gates, which creates a lot of unused real estate within those passageways. Airports rent that space to duty-free retailers. Additionally, freeing up access to those stores by installing security checkpoints at the terminus of each branch would be prohibitively expensive.

I'm sure the in-airport vendors are feeling the pinch and making it known.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-09 17:40|| 2006-12-09 17:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Darn it, Zenster, another area of knowledge as yet untouched, to be mastered in a limited lifetime! It sounded awfully good until cold reality intruded. Rantburg U rules!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-09 23:08|| 2006-12-09 23:08|| Front Page Top

#8 It sounded awfully good until cold reality intruded.

The scientific corollary of this being:

"Every theory looks better on paper than it actually is."

The inverse corollary being:

"Every person has a theory that will not work."

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-09 23:14|| 2006-12-09 23:14|| Front Page Top

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