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Originally Posted by Adder
Well, when you are in security line, as happened to me at Dulles awhile back, and there is one guy scrutinizing IDs so closely that the three inspection lines behind him are entirely open but it still takes you more than a half hour to get through security, then I don't think it's so minimal. I think that extra time spent in the airport has actual economic costs - it makes tourists marginally less interested in flying and, more importantly, directly increases the costs of business travel in ways that are a total loss.
Granted things would have been better if there weren't four TSA agents dealing with a girl who was sick, but there is still no excuse for the ID check being the bottleneck.
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Forgive me for thinking that you and others are exagerrating the inconveniences here. I don't think it's ever taken me half an hour to get through security, at least not in the US. Try actually timing it sometime.
(I'm also at a loss to understand why Thurgreed had to go through security again to catch a connecting flight -- unless he was connecting from an international to a domestic flight?)
People act as if being scanned by a machine, or being patdown for a few seconds, is the equivalent of being pulled over at midnight on a deserted stretch of the road for a DWB offense. I obviously have no personal experience with the latter, but somehow I think it's a hell of a lot more intrusive, frightening, and inconvenient (and I suspect that "inconvenience" is relatively low on the list of concerns for anyone subject to that).
