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The Transportation Security Administration is considering eliminating passenger screening at more than 150 small and medium-sized airports across the US, according to senior agency officials and internal documents obtained by CNN.
The proposal, if implemented, would mark a major change for air travel in the US, following nearly two decades of TSA presence since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and comes as the Trump administration has stepped up screening measures for items such as laptops and tablets.
Internal documents from a TSA working group say the proposal to cut screening at small and some medium-sized airports serving aircraft with 60 seats or fewer could bring a "small (non-zero) undesirable increase in risk related to additional adversary opportunity."
The internal documents from June and July suggest the move could save $115 million annually, money that could be used to bolster security at larger airports.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday August 02 2018, @12:34PM (4 children)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:13PM (2 children)
Screaming is not usually a problem at the smaller airports. So why even bother to eliminate it there? Smaller airports do not seem to interfere with the theater experience. And you are more likely to know the people groping you.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:20PM
Yes, only long haul flights have the screeching infant held with it's face between the head rests of the seats in front... for the entire fucking flight. TSA and airlines should also offer the torture light or "gitmo experience" where you can be waterboarded for the entire flight time.
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:47PM
not true. My local airport has 12 gates (2 wings). A single scanner, metal detector and 2 belts. Granted, they seem quite professional, how it has taken over *90 minutes* to get through to a gate, because the "TSA Pre" option was slowing down everyone else!!!!
I feel sure we are being manipulated with this recent release, as someone is well aware how unpopular the TSA is.
I guess as the old adage goes, "follow the money".
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday August 02 2018, @08:36PM
Think of the jobless TSA agents, think of the worried travelers, think of the contractors all over the country who still have millions of income riding on delivering the next X-ray machine / explosive sniffer / bioparticle amplifier, think of how much harder it will be to pick political targets out of the queues of travelers and arrest them.
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