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Long TSA security lines at Chicago Midway airport (video)

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shira

shira

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Cyan said:
Time to shell out the cash for pre check I guess. :/
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Chris R said:
PreCheck paid for itself at Denver, O'Hare and LAX this year. O'Hare was the longest line at like 10 minutes, and only long because TSA was sending non-PreCheck people into the line.

If you are going to fly more than once a year, get PreCheck.
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I think if lines are this long they are just going to throw nonprecheck into precheck.
 
Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station

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I'm flying internationally in mid-June with my wife and two kids, leaving from JFK. How much is pre-check, and can I get it in time? And if I get it myself can I take my family through with me?
 
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Jack Remington

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So Precheck is $85. Global Entry is $100. If you're going to fly internationally even a couple times over the next five years, the extra $15 is definitely worth it. You never know when you'll get a fuck-awful immigration queue.
 
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Strimei

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Ersatzkopf said:
The reason this is happening is because the TSA just can't hire enough people. No one wants to work for them.
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Yup. I heard on NPR earlier about how they can only really hire part-timers right now, and they have a high attrition rate for those.

I only spent a few hours a day assisting them when I was there and that was more than enough to leave me utterly exhausted. I can only imagine working it part-time and then going from that to another job or college or something.
 
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RoKKeR

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Did something happen recently to make the lines so long? I haven't traveled domestically since the end of last year. Some of these videos/photos are insane.
 
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Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
LyleLanley said:
It's worth the money, especially if you travel out of the country often and get Global Entry as well.
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I still think there's something inherently wrong with allowing people to bypass security, however effective it is, only because they are able they have more cash than the rest to spare.
 
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RBH

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TSA administrator Peter Neffenger said the agency is doing all it can to cut the lengthy wait times at airport security checkpoints after backlash from the public and airlines.

However, he also told Congress Thursday that the TSA is struggling with a 10 percent attrition rate. That means there are nearly 5,000 fewer screening officers on the job today, compared to just a few years ago.

This does not bode well for summer travel.

The numbers are stark.

Between 2. 2 million and 3 million passengers pass through TSA screening daily. But there simply aren't enough TSA officers.

Roughly 117 walk off the job each week and 35 percent within the first year—more than 6,000 officers.

This has led to closed checkpoints and backups stretching one, two and even three hours at airports nationwide.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-work-long-airport-security-line-waits-n573796
 
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LyleLanley

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Regulus Tera said:
I still think there's something inherently wrong with allowing people to bypass security, however effective it is, only because they are able they have more cash than the rest to spare.
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In principal I agree but that's not going to stop me from paying the money to skip lines.
 
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giga

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Regulus Tera said:
I still think there's something inherently wrong with allowing people to bypass security, however effective it is, only because they are able they have more cash than the rest to spare.
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that's not why. i get what you're saying, but the money you pay alone isn't why they're allowed to skip through security.
 
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LOLDSFAN

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M52B28 said:
Phoenix is a shithole.
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Catshade

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At this point, a group of terrorists blowing up the security lines will produce more casualties than blowing up the airplane itself.
 
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mollipen

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I travel on a nearly monthly basis, and it's suddenly gotten bad at LAX. Usually it was easy to get through security in like 10 minutes, but in the past month or so, lines have suddenly been crazy.

I've meant to sign up for Pre Check for months now, so I'm finally going to do it.
 
TDLink

TDLink

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TSA needs to be abolished already. It has never stopped a terrorist and there have been enough studies out there to prove it is actually useless at doing so. The TSA wouldn't have even caught the 9/11 hijackers. The metal doors installed after the attack on all planes is a bigger preventative measure for similar acts in the future than the entirety of the TSA.

Does anyone actually think the TSA makes them safer? There is so much out there about how it's security theatre. I have to believe it's 100% an annoyance to most people. The organization shouldn't exist. They can't even keep their employees anyways so it's not really like jobs would be cut. The government needs to get rid of the TSA. It's just ridiculous and pointless.
 
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Socivol

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TSA precheck was the best $85 I have spent in a long time. Short lines and you don't have to remove anything it's just a 100% win.
 
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Stormwatch

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Funny, I just started the application process for Pre-Check today. I travel a few times a year to visit family and I think it will be worth it.
 
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Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
I travel so much I have to have pre and global entry. But the tsa is a joke. Imagine how much is costing the country in non direct costs. Missed flights, blown deals and so on. And they don't even achieve what they're supposed to. Shoe bomber happened on their watch. Richard Reid. Notably the world's most suspicious looking dude wearing one giant Frankenstein shoe with a literal fuse hanging out of it. On various watch lists. Allowed to coward a flight from Paris to Miami having cleared whatever ludicrous cyber measures they had in place.


And the main change in the tsa since then is that they are fatter and now they can look at your balls.
 
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Bubble Metropolis

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Azerare said:
It's pretty close to my family's house and it's normally easier to deal with them O'hare.
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I spent something like an hour and a half in a TSA line earlier this year in O'Hare. This line, since it's a long single file, seems more ridiculous when you can walk down the length of it like in the video, but that time I was in O'Hate was easily more people than this just in one massive mob filtering into 5-6 terminals. Nightmarish.
 
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DragonSworne

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I fly every week almost. I haven't noticed any long lines...

It must just be Chicago. I bet they are trying to convince people to pay for TSA precheck.
 
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freenudemacusers

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Jarmel said:
So does only one person need it when two people are travelling together?

Also I signed up for Global Entry literally tonight. lol nope at those videos
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It depends on why/how you got at known traveler number. I can take a dependent under 12 but a spouse would need to apply.
 
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