Security rants
Apr. 24th, 2008 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crisavecI had a 5:10pm flight out of Ketchikan on Tuesday. I got to the airport at about 3, and by the time I rode the ferry across and turned in the rental car it and got to the security gate it was about 3:30. I'd intended to grab a bite to eat and dig out my laptop and do some paperwork with the hour I had before boarding.
Well..that was the idea anyway. When I got to security the gate was closed and locked. I could see a gaggle of TSA people sitting on benchs out in the terminal just hanging out. I figure they need a break too...but surely they'll open the gates an hour before boarding starts right?
Nope...the line of people grows from 3 to about 40, and the local cop wandered though and into the screening area(Ketchikan doesn't have an Airport PD, its just done by the city police when they have flights in.) and we could hear him comment to the TSA twits that they had quite the line forming outside. The reply I heard? "Let'm wait, need to keep them in suspense."
*growls* They FINALLY opened security at about 30 minutes before boarding, and had just about cleared the backlog of people when they started boarding the flight. This really torq's me off...its one thing to have limited coverage, but they had people standing around BSing that should have been working.
Well..that was the idea anyway. When I got to security the gate was closed and locked. I could see a gaggle of TSA people sitting on benchs out in the terminal just hanging out. I figure they need a break too...but surely they'll open the gates an hour before boarding starts right?
Nope...the line of people grows from 3 to about 40, and the local cop wandered though and into the screening area(Ketchikan doesn't have an Airport PD, its just done by the city police when they have flights in.) and we could hear him comment to the TSA twits that they had quite the line forming outside. The reply I heard? "Let'm wait, need to keep them in suspense."
*growls* They FINALLY opened security at about 30 minutes before boarding, and had just about cleared the backlog of people when they started boarding the flight. This really torq's me off...its one thing to have limited coverage, but they had people standing around BSing that should have been working.
