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TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters

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Post by hammock »

PearlRiver wrote: post #34
oefrha wrote: post #22

From the last few paragraphs: > There is an official way for travelers to bypass long TSA waits if they’re willing to spend: hiring concierge services to escort them through security. > Perq Soleil is an airport arrival and departure assistance service that can help travelers through TSA in about a minute flat by accessing alternative lines usually reserved for airport staff and airline personnel. The company — which…

The people arriving on private jets have always bypassed these bureaucratic procedures. Brotherhood and equality.

Why should private plane passengers be subject to TSA? TSA (paid for by you and me by the way, not for free) exists to protect the public from harm, on public flights by common carriers. It used to be contracted by airlines themselves. Unless you are the most extreme of pro-seatbelt law people, it would make little sense for TSA to screen anyone on a private plane manifest unless the client asked them to.

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Post by cogman10 »

delecti wrote: post #30
gruez wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the whole reason they're not funded was that Democrats refused to pass the bill unless it contained ICE reforms? Even if you're sympathetic to those reforms it's a bit disingenuous to characterize it as "Republicans are working hard to abuse people"

The Senate unanimously passed a DHS (excluding ICE/CBP) funding bill this week, which Mike Johnson blocked in the House. https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/27/politics/senate-agreement-dhs...

And it's important to note that ICE and CBP don't need additional funding. They were overfunded with the last spending bill by about 10x their actual needs.

That's the reason why ICE and CBP agents are still collecting paychecks while the rest of DHS is not.

It's actually a bit silly that Republicans, the party of limited government, have been holding up funding the TSA and FEMA because an agency they already overspent on won't get additional dollars. Not very DOGE.

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Post by alfanick »

I know it's bad, but yeah, I just hate waiting, it's stupid. So whenever I can I just go through "first class" security and nothing bad happens, just skipping the queue. Look decent, look busy, keep on walking and bam you're past the security in a minute compared to tens of minutes or hours. And don't ever remove that "short connection" or "priority" tag from your luggage, it indeed goes out first. Airports are so freaking annoying way to commute, take a bus/train/tram/taxi/car to the airport, figure out the maze, wait in queue, get bored after security (because you arrived to early not knowing how much you're going to wait in security), go to a gate, then a different gate, queue again, get inside, and wait again. Why did we do this to ourselves!?

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Post by mrtksn »

foolfoolz wrote: post #40
mrtksn wrote: post #38

I wonder why Trump just doesn't sell this himself, like golden tickets that you can buy from ICE where they just push back the free-tier line enjoyers to insert the patriotic gold level travelers. In Turkey people with connections to the government get strobe lights permit to skip the traffic through the emergency line. There's so many opportunities both for monetization and loyalty rewarding. Due to lapses like that…

we already have this with TSA Pre

Where does the money go? With ICE implementation they can split the proceeds and the customers can enjoy seeing people pushed around on prem.

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Post by tartoran »

mrtksn wrote: post #38

I wonder why Trump just doesn't sell this himself, like golden tickets that you can buy from ICE where they just push back the free-tier line enjoyers to insert the patriotic gold level travelers. In Turkey people with connections to the government get strobe lights permit to skip the traffic through the emergency line. There's so many opportunities both for monetization and loyalty rewarding. Due to lapses like that…

If some of his minions gave him this idea he’d probably do it.

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Post by frankbreetz »

hammock wrote: post #41
PearlRiver wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The people arriving on private jets have always bypassed these bureaucratic procedures. Brotherhood and equality.

Why should private plane passengers be subject to TSA? TSA (paid for by you and me by the way, not for free) exists to protect the public from harm, on public flights by common carriers. It used to be contracted by airlines themselves. Unless you are the most extreme of pro-seatbelt law people, it would make little sense for TSA to screen anyone on a private plane manifest unless the client asked them to.

The TSA was created because a plane crashed into a building. Private planes can crash into buildings. Why should they be exempt from TSA checks?

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Post by kacesensitive »

hammock wrote: post #41
PearlRiver wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The people arriving on private jets have always bypassed these bureaucratic procedures. Brotherhood and equality.

Why should private plane passengers be subject to TSA? TSA (paid for by you and me by the way, not for free) exists to protect the public from harm, on public flights by common carriers. It used to be contracted by airlines themselves. Unless you are the most extreme of pro-seatbelt law people, it would make little sense for TSA to screen anyone on a private plane manifest unless the client asked them to.

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Re: TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters

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Post by AzN1337c0d3r »

hammock wrote: post #41
PearlRiver wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The people arriving on private jets have always bypassed these bureaucratic procedures. Brotherhood and equality.

Why should private plane passengers be subject to TSA? TSA (paid for by you and me by the way, not for free) exists to protect the public from harm, on public flights by common carriers. It used to be contracted by airlines themselves. Unless you are the most extreme of pro-seatbelt law people, it would make little sense for TSA to screen anyone on a private plane manifest unless the client asked them to.

Were you born after 2001? Did you remember those planes that flew into the buildings?

Private planes can do the same thing.

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Post by gruez »

otterley wrote: post #29

I don’t even understand why this is an issue, because TSA screening is funded through user fees. There’s a line item of $5.60 per one-way ticket for exactly this that’s separate from airfare and other fees. ( https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/security-fees ) If this is so, why does Congress have to fund the program? Why not pass the funds through directly to the agency?

The same article you linked has a chart that shows that actual expenses are around 4x the fees that are collected.
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