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Because of recent events, here is my observations of this topic pertaining to our flight home from Florida yesterday.
Outside, in the passenger dropoff and pickup area, I saw none. Vehicles, including ours, were left unattended for plenty of time for someone to get their job done.
There was increased presence inside, but their focus was divided from security.
At the check-in counter there was an additional worker. Her job was to check all carry-ons, but not for security reasons. I had a brief conversation with her, likely to distract her from our one-too-many carryons, all of which weighed a metric ton from FL shopping.
Her job was to catch people trying to avoid the $40 bag fee.
She made an appearance to check the size of carryons, which ours made it past her, but not much effort to count how many. We had an extra carry-on and she did not catch that.
No carry-ons were weighed.
Although checked baggage was being set on a scale, none of the agents were looking at scale readings. Check-in were not being measured.
Moving on to the TSA people, at the first checkpoint there were three, sometimes four, people, where normally there is only one. The extras were eyeballing people and what they were carrying, letting some know they had stuff that would not get through, which went in the trash at that point.
There were were maybe four or five extra TSA people at the scanners. One of our carry-ons set off an alarm, was scanned and viewed by 3 agents, then hand-checked. There was no full-body scan, no one being patted down, and no one being taken for a more thorough exam.
The flight was good . . . a couple hours is far better than a couple days.
Outside, in the passenger dropoff and pickup area, I saw none. Vehicles, including ours, were left unattended for plenty of time for someone to get their job done.
There was increased presence inside, but their focus was divided from security.
At the check-in counter there was an additional worker. Her job was to check all carry-ons, but not for security reasons. I had a brief conversation with her, likely to distract her from our one-too-many carryons, all of which weighed a metric ton from FL shopping.
Her job was to catch people trying to avoid the $40 bag fee. She made an appearance to check the size of carryons, which ours made it past her, but not much effort to count how many. We had an extra carry-on and she did not catch that.
No carry-ons were weighed.
Although checked baggage was being set on a scale, none of the agents were looking at scale readings. Check-in were not being measured.
Moving on to the TSA people, at the first checkpoint there were three, sometimes four, people, where normally there is only one. The extras were eyeballing people and what they were carrying, letting some know they had stuff that would not get through, which went in the trash at that point.
There were were maybe four or five extra TSA people at the scanners. One of our carry-ons set off an alarm, was scanned and viewed by 3 agents, then hand-checked. There was no full-body scan, no one being patted down, and no one being taken for a more thorough exam.
The flight was good . . . a couple hours is far better than a couple days.
Are you 2 staying at the Oasis again?
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