Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban

Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by richman777 on Monday June 13, 2016 @05:56PM (#11898047)

I'm assuming this is the international terminal? I fly ATL->SFO every 3 weeks or so and SFO domestic is the fastest airport ever. I'll leave downtown SF at 1 and get to airport, drop my bag off and be at gate in ~30 minutes.

ATL on the other hand....even with TSA pre I can take a full hour.

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Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by tn13 on Monday June 13, 2016 @07:52PM (#11898737)

SFO is the only airport manned by private security instead of TSA, that is the reason it is super efficient.

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Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by tedmiston on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:47PM (#11899623)

I've cleared from the entrance through security to my (domestic) gate at SFO twice in ~15 minutes. It really blows my mind how they pull that off.

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Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by tn13 on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @02:25PM (#11904133)

Better training, more incentives to be passenger focused etc. might be the reasons.

In fact in some contests these private guards performed 5x better than TSA employees in catching the bad guys/bad items while actually doing it lot faster.

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Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by gte525u on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @07:37AM (#11901284)

For ATL - you can go in through international terminal and take the tram to the domestic gates. There is just less parking on the international side.

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Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by jandrese on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @12:02PM (#11902906)

Wow, I just flew out of IAD and even though I arrived at 4AM for my 5:15 flight, security still took 45 minutes. The line was already twice as long by the time I got through.

I don't even want to think about trying to get through at a reasonable hour.

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