No offense intended n5wd, but the TSA policies don't do anything to stop hijackings. If I wanted to, I could accomplish it even within the bounds of the policies they currently have. They do NOT make it safer to fly. What they do is pure theater, with no ultimate positive effect.n5wd wrote:Personally, I choose to drive a lot of the times I could fly, partially because of the TSA hassles and partially because of the hassle of flying, nowadays, period.
That said, imagine how you would feel if your wife and child were on a plane and because the TSA did not investigate a positive alarm, some skell hijacked the flight, or, blew it up.
No one likes TSA and their methods, but no one wants to return to the days when folks could hijack an airliner without much effort.
Others have mentioned they simply don't fly. I will avoid it when I can, but when my employer says I have to be in New York, and I am allowed 1 day travel to get there... well, it's not gonna happen except by air. I don't have the luxury of taking vacation time to drive there, and then drive back after they're done with me. So work dictates, and because I kinda like having a paycheck, I do as they say. Until I'm independently wealthy, I cannot completely eschew flight. As for vacation... well, I'm afraid there are still places I want to see that are not within driving distance in the time I have available to me. And my husband apparently isn't as annoyed by TSA as I am, so he pushes for the flying vacations. I pick my battles, and that's one I'm not willing to pick yet.