There once was a time when getting through airport security was quick and easy. But after the attacks on 9/11, the TSA, or Transportation Security Administration, was created and security screenings became much more thorough. With millions of people passing through TSA checkpoints everyday, this can create excruciating long lines, especially during holiday travel. Despite enhancements in technology like millimeter wave imaging and CT scanners, the airport security process has been slow to evolve.
But that may soon be changing. Delta, JetBlue, and American Airlines are just a few of the U.S. airlines starting to test facial recognition for boarding and TSA checkpoints. The TSA is also working with companies on designing better screeners so passengers don’t have to remove anything from bags and can leave their shoes on. CNBC explores how far we’ve come in airport security and the ways the TSA and airlines are looking to speed up and make airport security even safer.
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Why Airport Security Is So Slow And How The TSA And Airlines Are Trying To Fix It
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Why do you need to show your ID at TSA in the US?
Just remove airport security altogether ffs
I rather wait longer, and be safe. 🇺🇸
Shocking how little the „right of own personal data“ and the risks of sharing personal data with company’s and government agencies are mentioned and how they misused that 😕
They are not paid for efficiency, they are paid to do a task!
TSA is a joke. What it really does take away your freedoms and rights as a passenger creates a sense of oppression by the federal government……. if security were an issue to the federal government, then protecting the border and influx of immigration into the US would be considered as a first priority,
TSA will torture you for bottle of water but you can cross border with backpack filled with God knows what and nobody will care.
If you are used to American airports, then you would be shocked at how quick it can be at airports here in Sweden – at least for domestic flights.
I often fly from Luleå airport in northeastern Sweden, which is a very small airport where everything is very close to the main entrance, and I can seriously often get from the main entrance all the way to the gates in just 5 minutes if there aren't too long lines there;
sometimes I am lucky enough to have no lines at all, and in those situations I literally just go and ask for my ticket, walk up some short stairs, have my hand baggage scanned while I walk through a metal detector, and MAYBE get some very brief hand swab test on rare occasions, and that's it.
It is incredibly quick and easy.
Even Arlanda airport can sometimes be this quick, although that place is of course a lot bigger, and tends to be more crowded.
I got TSA Precheck when I was traveling for work a few years ago. I don't travel any more than a couple times a year post pandemic but I will never get rid of my Precheck. It is so worth it for my sanity.
Clear is a waste of money for the record
TSA hires the unemployable and gives them an undeserved badge-they are not sworn law enforcement officers. These substandard security guards would never get past the first stage of a law enforcement application. 🙊
I don’t understand why they are yelling at people for no reason
Believe me, reinforcing cockpit doors was a decisive countermeasure against hijackings, creating TSA wasn't.
11:10🍆
😂😂😂😂oh America! still stuck in the 90s while the rest of the world's moved on. US airports are ancient
Drugs are threats.
WHAT ABOUT PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS?!
Send out a list of people whose criminal history makes them too dangerous to fly out to every airport. The person checking your ID can check if you're on the list. On the list = go through security screening. off the list = the TSA doesn't screen you or your belongings.
Airport security check points are unnecessary for the same reasons why it's unnecessary to have security check points at bus stops and train stations.
A very dehumanizing experience.
Anyone who works for the TSA should be ashamed of themselves. Wretched idiots, not everyone in the US is a terrorist and it hasn't even gone up except for the incidents where the FBI was found out to be grooming depressed kids and teenagers into doing it along with funding their endeavor in buying firearms.
And they fail 85-95% of the time.They literally stop nothing unless you have 3.5 ounces of liquid..then they jump you for a full pat down and lecture.
Well, if airport security was "quick and easy" then another 911 could happen. Why can't travelers just have some patience and understand that the world doesn't revolve around them, and they're not the only ones going through TSA. Some travelers are unprepared and don't do their own research, so the slowness is on them and not the TSA. Yes, there are some TSOs that might screw up here and there. Ultimately, it's for your security. The TSA definitely makes it harder for criminals and terrorists (WHO STILL EXIST) to be able to bring dangerous weapons onto planes and into airports and other places. This is CLASSIC CNBC propaganda. Well done, fools.
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