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Re:The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal by bz_bz_bz on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @01:05PM (#46874635)
If they opted for a pat down for 6 years, then faster treatment clearly wasn’t the goal. Metal detector + swabbing is not faster than the scanner either.
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Re:The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal by sigmoid10 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @01:23PM (#46874922)
Depends heavily on where you fly from. From the original comment it clearly seems that it does make it faster.
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