They should pay us $100 every time we wait more than 20 minutes in the security line.
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Pay $100 and You Get a Quicker Airport Security Check: Fair or Foul?
SodaHead News
2012/03/16 22:44:42
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For those of us who remember flying before the attacks of September 11, quick and easy security checks at the airport are nothing but a fond (and pleasantly brief) memory. Now we have to take off our shoes, belts, and jackets, and if we're lucky, submit ourselves to pat-downs and full-body scans. But two airlines at seven airports are now offering a "pre-check" system that returns customers to pre-9/11 conditions -- for a price.
The TSA is opening special lanes for select customers who have undergone background checks and, according to Yahoo!, met "undisclosed TSA criteria." The customers must be invited to participate in the program, unless they already in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Global Entry program, but everyone apparently has to pay $100 to sign up. Pre-checked customers can keep their shoes on, skip the full-body scans, and even keep liquids in their carry-on. It's a complicated system, so you might want to brush up on the details here. But do you think the speedier airport security check sounds fair -- or foul?
The TSA is opening special lanes for select customers who have undergone background checks and, according to Yahoo!, met "undisclosed TSA criteria." The customers must be invited to participate in the program, unless they already in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Global Entry program, but everyone apparently has to pay $100 to sign up. Pre-checked customers can keep their shoes on, skip the full-body scans, and even keep liquids in their carry-on. It's a complicated system, so you might want to brush up on the details here. But do you think the speedier airport security check sounds fair -- or foul?
Top Opinion
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CREW grand 2012/03/17 02:12:32
A. Naked Body scanners that set off radiation and are worse than metal detectors
B. Metal Detectors plus genital groping
C. Cash because no fascist security system would be perfect without bribery.
D. Don't fly, soon don't travel, after don't leave your house.
I love the TSA
But there is a class of Americans who travel every week....I know, I was in this class. If you travel every week, TSA security checks actually impact your budget for time and money. Time you spend waiting in a security line is lost to your employer and your family. The billing rate for these people who travel every week, is between $1 and $10/minute. Assuming these rates are set by the market place, the billing rate approximates the social cost of these folks waiting in line. If investing $100 saves the person 5 minutes each way, 20 trips is break even....so anybody traveling more than 20 times a year will want this service.
But I agree with the top comment....it is bribery to avoid unnecessary services.
Now let's evaluate security measures....after the Cuban hijackings of the 1970s, metal detectors, aka, gun control, was introduced prior to boarding an airplane and the hijackings stopped. After 9/11, additional checks on baggage, etc. were introduced and the number of incidents of dangerous devices being smuggled onto airplanes increases.
Now I am a simple person...if after a change in security practices incidents increase, I assume the security measures are the cause. The metal detectors introduced after the hijackings in the 70s worked. The security measures introduced after 9/11 did not.