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By Tyler Durden
“I always tell people I won’t apologize for doing our job well,
but I do apologize to the people who found themselves stranded in
Chicago yesterday”
– TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger
Two days ago we showed a video that promptly became viral of what was a line at Midway Airport that, somewhat hyperbolically, stretched for miles.
As the WaPo reported, when Sean Hoffman arrived at Midway Airport last week for his flight home to Oregon, he said he was taken aback by the comically long line to get through security. “I got to the end, (and) I was like, holy (expletive), people would probably like to see this.”
It wasn’t just Midway: the carnage continuesd at Chicago’s O’Hare, where as CBS reported, with increasingly long lines to get through security at the city’s airports, many travelers have been missing their flights, and some ended up sleeping at O’Hare International Airport on Sunday. To “help” furious travelers, American Airlines put out cots for fewer than 100 travelers who missed their flights Sunday night due to the long lines at TSA security checkpoints. Adrian Petra said he missed his flight after standing in line for 2 hours and 20 minutes. American Airlines said some 4,000 passengers have missed flights at O’Hare since February because of the long wait times.
The TSA has been urging passengers to get to the airport at least two hours early for domestic flights, and three hours early for international flights. However, some passengers have said that is not enough time to get through security and still make their flight.
One alleged reason behind these lines was that Homeland Security wanted to force more travelers to become “known” to the government via PreCheck programs. Another reason was the TSA’s revolt at the government cutting its funding. According to AP, “in the past three years, the TSA and Congress cut the number of front-line screeners by 4,622 — or about 10 percent — on expectations that an expedited screening program called PreCheck would speed up the lines. However, not enough people enrolled for TSA to realize the anticipated efficiencies.”
In other words, PreCheck has been in a failure. Not enough Americans have been willing to make themselves “known” to FedGov and Homeland Security, and now the epic inefficiency of the TSA – and the government – has been fully exposed.
Meanwhile, the nightmare lines continue, perhaps nowhere more so than at America’s already busiest airport, Chicago’s O’Hare.
As NBC writes, the Transportation Security Administration is flooding Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport with more staff and resources after hundreds of passengers were stranded as their planes took off while they waited in line, local and federal authorities said Tuesday.
TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger apologized at a travel conference Tuesday in Houston to the more than 450 passengers who didn’t make it onto their flights overnight Sunday and Monday as the security screening lines crept along at O’Hare.
“We had a significant challenge in Chicago yesterday,” Neffenger said. “I don’t know what that
Source: Shocking Images Of Record Long Lines At US Airports
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