Yeah, we had the same experience flying with my daughter back in October.

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That's my one of my biggest WTF things. They still don't have any reasonable system to get people off the damn plan in a semi-orderly fashion. As you said we still have idiots trying to cram too-big bags into the overhead bin and fucking everything up or some clown who simply can't figure out a way to get his bag in less than 10 min...or you have the people who race to front from the back and screw people up.

Maybe the TSA should hire isle monitors or something.

Wow the disembark is one of the most painful processes on earth. I know they have had engineers work on loading and unloading planes more efficiently as so much time is wasted with these routine events. When the engineers got studying it, there realized there was no way to account for the stupidity and unpredictability of humans. They would try loading windows first and staggered parts of the planes. No matter how they did it, they were unable to materially cut the time to load the plane.

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Oh geeze. It's so random at times. I've been through the standard screener lines many times with box cutters, pocket knifes, screw drivers, nails and screws...all that stuff. On occasion they get you but for the most part the small stuff gets through.

The stuff they get super fixated on his funny. Ice packs and half empty bottles of water. Oh brother.

"Can't you put your stroller on the conveyor belt?".

"No, it's too big"

"Well, then we have to inspect it by hand"

"Ok"

"Take off the cupholder"

"Um ok"

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

the stupid thing is they load the front of the plane before the back of the plane.

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I mean, I can appreciate, I guess, them wanting to be thorough but when I'm doing the Hammer Dance through security loaded up with knives, lighters and other weapons it can get a bit silly.

"We have to inspect the milk. It will not damage it but you can throw it away afterwards"

"Ok"

The best part was the old lady behind me who also got caught in the "BAG CHECK!" sweep saying to me "You're slowing us all down".

Yeah lady, I was hoping to have a discussion about ice packs with a guy in rubber gloves today.

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First time we flew with her, my wife was told by the desk clown at American that we had to check the stroller because TSA wouldn't allow it through. Nothing like the joy of having to carry an extra 40 pounds of baby and car seat all the way through the damn airport (we were gate checking the car seat). Fucking baggage handlers broke something on the stroller, too...

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they have a thing called a "travel stroller." It folds up and weighs like 5 pounds.

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Let me piggyback on that: the stupidest thing is that JetBlue figured out that loading the plane back-to-front greatly speeds up the process, but then by selling priority boarding to people in the front, they load front-to-back-to-less-front, which nullifies any benefits of back-to-front loading! At that point, you might as well let the big shooters get on, then the vets (thank you for your service), and then tell everyone else to just have at it.

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Great when the kids are bigger...not very useful for a 6 month old.

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Even though I wrongly called him a toddler before he is too young to use one of those and we still needed the car seat.

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worked for us. maybe they're illegal now.

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I imagine you could get that discussion to 6 pages.

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a guy who used to work here worked for a company contracted to try and sneak shit through TSA. he said without trying they were successful more times than not. he would travel all around. he said the busier the airport, the less TSA cared.

My wife seems to always bring something that sets off the bells. A couple times it was a corkscrew. Last time it was a jar of cheese spread.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

Last time it was my butt.

No, seriously, they had to wave a wand over my ass for tripping the x-ray scanner. I don't know what they found, but one nut-cupping and ass-scanning later, they let me go.

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You don't argue with TSA under any circumstance. In that 20 foot area they are god.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

I'm flying to New Hampshire in August. Shit better be fixed by then!

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This thread is kind of dull without Feelz weighing in on the security processes in places like Djibouti or Vanuatu.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

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Last summer in Warsaw it was pretty efficient. I was surprised given everyone working is obviously Polish. I had very low expectations since I assume the leftovers were handling things over there since the cream of the crop (relatively speaking) immigrated to the UK/US.

Emigrated

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Emigrate from Poland.
Immigrate to US/UK

It makes no sense.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

it only makes sense because people are SO FUCKING EAGER to be on the plane first. and the ones that want to be on first the most are the ones who paid the most. its like an entitlement thing

then, once theyre on the plane, they complain the plane doesnt take off fast enough. they complain people cant get their luggage in quick enough. WELL, STAY OFF THE FUCKIN PLANE UNTIL THE PEOPLE SITTING BEHIND YOU ARE BOARDED DUMBASS

why on earth ANYONE would want to be on the plane first I just don't understand. I always try to be the very last one on. I also never use the overhead compartment. those should be for diaper bags only. if you cant fit what you have on you under the seat then just shoot yourself and die.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

I was a TSA screener, part of the National Deployment Force. Today it was announced that 85 screeners from the NDF will be going to work at O'Hare.
It's the govt so they will all stay in nice hotels in single rooms and will all get nice tax free per diems.
I once worked 3 months at KOA (Kona on the Big Island). Had a good hotel room and got $95 a day per diem (7days a week) to 'help' me pay for the meals I put together from grocery shopping.
;O)
Privatize. Biggest problem when I worked any big city airport was lazy ass workers. BWI and JFK were the worst.
That is all.

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