Posted on 06/03/2016 8:11:35 AM PDT by Gamecock
Delta Air Lines paid for and installed a pair of "innovation lanes" at its hometown airport in Atlanta. The lanes are much better designed than the standard security checkpoints found at airports around the US, and the airline hopes it can double the throughput thanks to some clever ideas.
Rather than having TSA agents use hand-pushed carts to bring empty trays from the exit back to the entrance of the line, the new lanes use an automated conveyor belt system. And instead of having travelers stack up behind one another to drop off their belongings to be scanned, there are five different "divestment points" so faster travelers can drop off their bags and move on without waiting for a slower person in front of them.
Finally, the automated bin system can route bins that set off screening alarms to a separate area for inspection, again freeing up TSA agents to focus on screening rather than the logistics of moving baggage around.
Delta says it spent more than $1 million on the system, which it thought up and deployed in less than two months. No word if it will be rolled out to more airports, but anything that can help get travelers through the TSA's security lines faster will be well received by the airlines and the public.
Naaahhhhh
In the last two weeks I went through checkpoints just like this in Toronto and London.
Five people preparing for security at the same time. Not one person at a time like in the US. People like me who enter the line prepared just have to throw their bag on the belt and move. People like my mother can take all day and not gum up the works.
Leave it to private industry here to implement efficiency, not the people who run security, the VA and want to run all health care.
As I remember it was the airlines that were more than happy to turn the job over to the government.
IIRC it was the airports.
A prime directive under the government is to employ more people, so inefficincy is rewarded. The income stream is bottomless, there is no cost pressure, no competitor, no profit motive.
Industry has a totally different view of the balance between capital investment and direct labor.
Love the old ladies who don’t realize that wearing three gold bracelets on each arm is going to cause a problem.
Of course the airports were happy to let the government do it.
If the airport runs the security and a terrorist gets through, then the airport is on the hook for the gigantic liability lawsuits to follow. If the government let him slip through, it’s on them (and they have sovereign immunity).
"It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day.........."
Just confirms that free markets work. TSA has no reason to be efficient; Delta does. Also, the whole process is a joke and does nothing for safety, and does little else but raise the cost of flying. If a terrorist wants to damage a plane, he’s going to bonk a tarmac worker in the parking lot, use their badge to unlock the employee gate (they are not manned), and from then on they have free access to everything. Stupid...
You will walk through at least 2-3 nodes on the way to your gate. Some of them are quite obviously built-in metal detectors; others you may not even be aware are there.
When you are seated in the boarding area, petite eye candy in the form of lovely uniformed female guards are walking around asking your permission to wand you or your carry-on luggage. They are so polite about it that the average male passenger is probably thinking "Please, please, let her approach me!"
In the beginning we were ALL a little jumpy and unsure and a method seemed to have been developed that might be of some help
In my best Nick Danger voice ...
"Little did we knowwwwww ... "
And I think THAT is the problem facing America today ...
WE, the people ... have awakened a patriotic spirit that is on a roll to flatten the elites .... and they are seriously powerful enough to not allow that to happen
And I wonder how many people feel and understand this ....
Delta does this and then you have more time to sit in the lobby waiting to be placed on a replacement for the flight that was cancelled.
I’ve flown Delta three times. Each time the flight was delayed, connections missed and the staff rude, uncaring and/or incompetent.
Never again. I’ll walk or swim if I have to before I fly that air line again.
D-oesn’t
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In my experience they are the worst airline on Earth. Worse even than Areoflot
I’ve advocating for some time that the airlines take over screening for their flights (the gov. can set the standards, just like they do for military contracts). The airlines have their capital and reputations at risk, and the most to gain, by getting this right.
Just get he gov. out of the process (and out of our daily lives)!
NICK
Where am I?
POP
You can’t get there from here.
NICK
But I’m looking for the same old place.
POP
Oh, you must mean the old Same Place, Sonny. It’s right out back. Here’s the key. (key drop)
NICK
Four hours later...
The "best" becomes the enemy of the "better" and the "good enough," and nothing gets fixed.
As you correctly observe, there is no direct profit motive, so it's viewed as better to do nothing and not get blamed than to attempt something that's viewed as a failure*.
*Once Congressmen start holding hearings, TSHTF and that's when something is "viewed as a failure".
I'll abandon the word "interested," and concede that point. But they don't have any need to make the process efficient from a use of direct labor standpoint. If the throughput is fast enough that the public is not annoyed by the experience, the government would be happy if it used ten times as many workers.
-- it's viewed as better to do nothing and not get blamed than to attempt something that's viewed as a failure --
In that congressional hearing, or after TSHTF, there is no failure that a government agency won't ask for more money and more resources. Efficiency and accountability are not factors when the government is the employer.
Sorry, they didn’t build that. The government secretly did, but not that the cat’s out of the bag, obama can take full credit.
wha ?(walking)
wve ctabd DAWTK HEAH ... wha !?
(walking)
I said, we can't talk here
What 1968, 69 ?
While Americans are being strip searched at the front door, illegal aliens work the backdoor at the airport.
It is time to ditch the TSA.
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