Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security

Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by superuser2 on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:57PM (#11614389)

They are basically useless, but we still have to go through them to get to our flights. The fewer staff they have, the slower it goes.

A sufficiently resourced-starved TSA might "succeed" at preventing attacks on passenger air travel by eliminating passenger air travel altogether. Once lines approach 4, 5 hours people will just drive.

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by astrodust on Monday May 02, 2016 @05:24PM (#11615785)

Travelling by train is so ridiculously refreshing. Grab ticket online or at kiosk. Walk on train. Sit down.

There's nothing even close in the air travel world. Even Nexus people have to endure the occasional cavity search.

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by superuser2 on Monday May 02, 2016 @05:34PM (#11615866)

Isn't Amtrak plagued by horrific delays? The Chicago to NYC time is 20 hours by the schedule, and anecdotally 5-7 more hours waiting for freight trains is pretty common. Don't have real data or personal experience though.

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by giaour on Monday May 02, 2016 @07:43PM (#11616731)

I took a Chicago-NYC train once, and the crew was happy that it was "only" 4 hours late. IIRC, the physical rails are owned by freight lines, so freight gets a higher priority at crossings.

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by astrodust on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:44PM (#11624846)

I guess I'm lucky I don't have to deal with Amtrak then.

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by ghettoimp on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:49PM (#11617766)

I'd love to take a train, except that to go from Austin to Omaha I have to go through... Chicago??? (Seriously)

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