Re:“How Do TSA Employees Feel About Working For a Despised A...
by codex on Friday December 21, 2012 @03:36PM
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The cost is a little higher than that, because many passengers don't fly non-stop--they may take two flights though a hub, for example, but there's only been one screening.
However, if you assume one screening per flight, and a one-way flight cost of $200, that's 5% of the flight's cost.
As TSA employees only make $12-15 an hour, I presume that most of that cost goes into paying for expensive screening machines and bomb-detection sensors, but that's pure speculation.
Re:“How Do TSA Employees Feel About Working For a Despised A...
by jes on Friday December 21, 2012 @05:27PM
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Well, you have a whole bureaucracy on top of the TSA employees that you actually see at the airport. I'd expect that consumes a bunch of our money too.
However, if you assume one screening per flight, and a one-way flight cost of $200, that's 5% of the flight's cost.
As TSA employees only make $12-15 an hour, I presume that most of that cost goes into paying for expensive screening machines and bomb-detection sensors, but that's pure speculation.