HERE is a maths question. If the number of people moving from point A to point B increases by 9%, and the number of gates they can pass through decreases by 10%, what happens to the time it takes for them to complete the process? On second thoughts, forget the maths. For airline passengers this summer, it is only important to know that it goes up. Way up.
This is essentially what has happened at America’s airports. In the past three years, the number of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners has declined from 47,147 to 42,525. Over the same time period, the number of passengers has risen from 643m a year to more than 700m.
Why cut the roster of screeners? According to a report from the Associated Press (AP), it is all due to a false assumption surrounding the TSA PreCheck programme. PreCheck allows its members to skip the long lines and move through a special lane without taking off their shoes or removing liquids from their bags. It was launched in 2012 and was supposed to enroll 25m...Continue reading
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