Airlines worry frustrations with security procedures contributing to decline in travel

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SUSAN STELLIN
NY Times
November 22, 2011

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The Air Transport Association expects 2 percent fewer people will fly this Thanksgiving week compared with last year, while AAA projects a 4 percent increase in automobile travel.

As the T.S.A. observes its 10th anniversary, it also faces lawsuits over the legality of its passenger searches, growing scrutiny of the cost-effectiveness of its screening measures, questions about security lapses and complaints that some agents continue to make travelers feel humiliated or harassed.

At a Senate Commerce Committee oversight hearing about the agency in early November, Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, described her own discomfort with a particular agent at a St. Louis airport and expressed sympathy for passengers who complain.

“When you have the traveling public tell you that sometimes these pat-downs are unacceptable, trust me, they are not exaggerating,” Senator McCaskill said. “There are many times that women put hands on me in a way that if it was your daughter or your sister or your wife you would be upset.”

Based on her frequent travels, she also suggested that women who must submit to pat-downs have to wait longer than men, because there are fewer female agents to conduct searches.

Other senators who attended the hearing or a separate one convened by the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voiced concerns about radiation emitted by the X-ray body scanners, security breaches at Atlanta and Newark airports, insensitive treatment of passengers with medical conditions and a child caught up in a watch list error.

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6 Responses to “Airlines worry frustrations with security procedures contributing to decline in travel”

  1. It’s a shame, but the New World Order wants all chickens in the coop ! no exceptions ! They have intentions of enslavement not free will transportation, there’s a war going on for your mind !

    Think.

  2. Only 2%?! It’s probably more (like 20%). The airlines are fudging the numbers to cover their losses. Don’t fly unless you love being groped and getting a lethal dose.

    Free “OCCUPY THIS ” bumper stickers. Click me.

  3. Never mind, I’m sure when the Airlines are Filing for Bankruptcy the TSA will buy them.
    Thankyou for flying TSA Airways. Then get on the TSA Rail or TSA Taxi.

    The TSA Taxi’s are going to be bitch, they will have to tow a caravan complete with TSA Goons and TSA Scanner.

    TSA making your life safer.

  4. Hi Everybody………….One of the things that has not been considered in the debate over the horrific new TSA security procedures is the economic impact that all of this is going to have. The rest of the world is watching what is going on, and millions of people are going to decide that they simply do not want to go through the hassle of flying to the United States. There are some cultures where allowing a strange person to touch your private areas is unthinkable. In 2009, 54.9 million tourists visited the United States, and those tourists spent approximately 93 billion dollars. That doesn’t even count all of the internal tourism in the United States which is far greater. Tourism is the first, second or third biggest employer in 29 U.S. states. So what happens if a significant chunk of tourists decide that they are simply not going to fly because of the new full body scanners and the new “enhanced pat-downs”?…..well the answer is….NO WORRIES due to former Federal Reserve Chairman …THE MOST HANDSOME guy on this planet ALAN GREENSPAN ..He says no worries , we have the answer, we will KEEP printing money $$$$ have the capacity to cover Up the losses ….LMFAO ….So how damaging to American economy will all of these new security procedures be?..no sweat lol…Unless the American people stand up right now and refuse to accept these ridiculous new security procedures the rest of the world will never look at AMERICA the same way again….so how much damage is occurring to domestic international airline business in US of A…..well fkuck all due to Alan Greenspan …lol
    Thanks
    Best Wishes

  5. naked body scanners.

    a) free porno for perverts.
    b) cancer treatment bills for those pesky people who can still somehow afford to fly.
    c) profits for mikee chertoffs little insider treason arrangement.
    d) jobs for mindless thugs thieves and paedophile-pervert traitors.

    feel free to add to the list of Obama-nations committed by freaks in DC,
    theyre taking it to our highways now too. seig heil?!

  6. Fudge the airlines. They too went crazy charging fees up their ass and decreasing services to the FP. If they go down, well, let’s just call it KARMA.

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