Another shrewd move to collect biometric data.
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But can I just hang out and watch planes take off and land? I miss that.
I remember dropping off a girlfriend at the airport back in the 90s. The security desk asked me to leave my pocket knife at the security station before preceding to the gate. When I came back, the security guy was gone but there was a plastic box full of knifes and stuff to be retrieved on the honor system.
One of my friends bought one of these boxes from a TSA auction and now just gives free knives to anyone who visits.
Sweet! Free knife box!
Honestly, I only want airplane passengers past the gate. It would be chaos.
TSA is a big reason for the chaos.
I just had a very eye opening trip to Japan and back and their airport security is very simple and quick. The TSA agent at security checking ID is replaced with an a turnstile where you scan your boarding pass. That equivalent employee is instead at one of a dozen baggage scanners moving that line through much quicker. Everything is is run through metal detectors instead of mmWave machines where TSA gets to examine your nude body. It literally took me less than 5 minutes to get through. Meanwhile on my layover in Honolulu, the "10 minute" security line had over a hundred people trying to get through a single body scanner and wasn't budging an inch.
Furthermore, the gate waiting area had tons of couches and other padded seating, tons of restaurants and high end shops, food court areas, smoking lounges, shower rooms, etc. Airports and airport security in this country is a fucking joke.
Let’s just stop using planes entirely and go back to trains.
I'm afraid the Transatlantic Express is going to be sub-par.
But the journey would be incredible
You could even go as far as saying it would be a fantastic voyage
An odyssey, if you will
Deal
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It will help when people ship their kids off to grandma’s, helping eldery out, or whatever. Parents can be there and see the kid onto the plane rather than depending on airline employees to do all the handling.
That said, gates and airports are crowded AF. I don’t like this idea very much other than very limitied circumstances.
I'd have no problem with it if it were free of charge and the lines moved. But it's not, and they don't
We were able to assist our ex who was blind even without a ticket because they didn’t have any available guides for him back in 2022
This is technically not new, several airports already have their own version that doesn't require tsa pre or a 3 day advance notice.
AFAIK DTW was the first, and they now allow you to print an access pass right at the terminal entrance so you can go through security as a non passenger.
Also to the comments complaining about long lines and traffic, that just means your airport sucks lol. ATL and ORD have some of the most horrendous pedestrian design and understaffed sections in the world. They aren't 3 hour line busy because of the sheer volume, they just already sucked total garbage at handling that volume.
Git gud
DTW had some very weird roles at the beginning, I think it's easier now.
When my father traveled I applied and they told me to come to the "office" at 9am on the day of the flight to verify my docs and pick up the pass, but the flight was at 7am. I called and told them about the flight time and told me they could not issue it a day prior and recommended to change my father's flight...
Because airports and security lines aren't crowded enough already.
Just a new way to grift
I don't see how they do that without having to check ID's at the gates in addition to at TSA... once you have non-travelers allowed back to the gates it's easy to switch places and you don't know who is going where...
You still have to have a valid ticket to board the plane. So I'm not sure what the concern would be.
You give your boarding pass to someone else and they get on the plane instead. Doesn't seem that complicated.
The person was pre-cleared by TSA, aka who really cares if they swapped places. They were already cleared to not be a threat as much as the person with the ticket?
If you are on a no fly list or have a warrant out for your arrest, I assume you won't pass the TSA pre-check.
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I don't have info here for a full system, but my airport is one of these that allows the non-passengers through TSA permission. When you scan your boarding pass at the jet bridge to get on the plane, a picture of your face comes up on the display and the airline gate worker appears to verify the person with the boarding pass matches the person entering.
Somehow, this wasn't a problem 25 years ago.
Oh stowaways was a huge problem in the 70's and 80's... less so as electronic ticket scanners became a thing... but there was always someone doing the "I just need to bring my husband/wife/son something" and hiding out in the Lav until takeoff....hoping for an empty seat to settle into...
Where would they get the extra boarding pass? Also, that's a problem solved with electronic scanning, not with TSA checkpoints.
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I have TSA Pre, and I could see using this if, say, my kid was travelling solo (which is increasingly likely).
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