This is my repost of my previous post here. My question WASN’T actually clear enough, so I had to add “United States presidential” to the title. That said, I’ll start by saying I’d vote for Governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear.

  • Scirocco@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    How so?

    I fly enough to hit “gold” status on major airlines, and have seen the transition from the shit-show that was TSA initially into a universally smooth and fast process.

    I think a lot of people don’t truly know the chaos that was pre-TSA screening. Do you recall being stuck in an aircraft at the gate, because the airline had to unload luggage for a passenger that hadn’t boarded?

    For a long time after 9/11 the only airport operating smoothly was DCA (Congress uses DCA)

    But for the last dozen or more years, things have only gotten smoother, everywhere.

    I passed through JFK screening in less than 22 minutes a few weeks ago.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
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      49 minutes ago

      That’s because you’re US-centric still.

      Other countries, interestingly, didn’t have all these issues prior to TSA hardening the screening process post-9/11.

      All those countries and airports, however, upped their processes when the US did, making air travel a chore instead of a good experience.