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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, Interesting) by Alfred on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:32PM
Little airports may have no security but when you fly from one of those to big airport you will have to be screened there. If your main hub is Denver or Houston or Atlanta or whatever, all of the security theater at those will be escalated to Holywood-physics levels of stupid to compensate for the lack at the smaller airport. They will still consider it necessary to have screenings between public and sterile zones, its just some airports will move out of the sterile zone.
All in all the TSA does nothing but make some contractors rich. I worry more about the TSA being involved with a terrorist incident than my fellow passengers.