Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy.
Air travel has taken a huge hit from the coronavirus, with traffic volume down 90 percent or more at U.S. airports. But as lockdowns begin to ease, some people are taking to the skies once more.
If they can get passed the TSA security checkpoints, which are now checking travelers’ health as well as their luggage. The new rules ticketholders include:
…fliers not hand boarding passes to TSA officers. Passengers will now be asked to scan their own boarding passes—both paper and electronic—instead of giving them to the TSA officer before security. After scanning, passengers should hold up their boarding pass so the TSA officer can visually inspect it.
Passengers are also being asked to place any food from their carry-on bags into clear plastic bags and to place those bags into their own bins to go through the X-ray machine. “Food items often trigger an alarm during the screening process,” a TSA release says. “Separating the food from the carry-on bag lessens the likelihood that a TSA officer will need to open the carry-on bag and remove the food items for a closer inspection.” (TSA PreCheck members, however, are exempt from this requirement.)
Inconveniences? Sure. But couple them with social distancing requirements, scaled-back TSA staffing, and few open security positions?
The results are predictable – there will be chaos, including, but not limited to, long lines, missed flights, short tempers, and no social distancing.
It happened the Charlotte airport over the Memorial Day weekend
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The TSA and the Air Lines keep creating new novel ideas that cause me to not fly. They can go to hell as far as I’m concerned.
The sooner all government agencies recognize that these so-called protests are
nothing more than organized riots, the sooner they will stop them in their tracks.
Soviet playbook plain and simple – destabilize government and then take over!!
Wake up, you idiots!
Let’s hear some ideas for improvement, or would you rather take a flight where no ones been checked?
TSA is disorganized.
There’s a difference.
It seems the barrel has always been scraped for hiring TSA personel and the head of this agency is under these people in the barrel . This is purely a brown shirt organization , achtung .
A family member works for an airline and I have not flown since the TSA was started. I tell them I’d end up in jail if some jerk in a TSA uniform tried to touch me. I cannot understand how people with little children can let their children allow others to touch them and then tell then not to talk to strangers. TSA employees are as strange as they come. I’ll see the USA in my Chevrolet thank you.