Everyone that works at an airport must go through an FBI background check, fingerprints the whole nine yards.
Also access to sterile areas, ie where the planes are, must go through a TSA check point. Access to the ramps are likewise gated and require proper airport badging for entry.
Is it perfect? Of course not but to imply that airport security in this country is loosy-goosy is BS.
Having the proper badge is meaningless.
I worked for years "behind the lines" in airports. If you have a badge, you get in. Nobody ever looked at mine to verify the that badge was actually mine or that it was genuine.
>FBI background check, fingerprints the whole nine yards
Yep, we’ve already seen the ‘vetting’ process in action in CA.
I’m SURE Ahmed I is fully scrutinizing Ahmed II’s badge EVERY time/day. /s
I call BS on your call of BS
“Also access to sterile areas, ie where the planes are, must go through a TSA check point.”
This is not correct. I worked for Airport Operations at a medium sized commercial airport in the mid-west. I could, and did, enter the sterile areas from the ramp using the fire exits many times. My airport badge would open these doors from both inside or outside without activating an alarm. All of the airport employees that were authorized entry into the sterile area, electricians, police, fire, plumbers, etc., could do this. There is no TSA checkpoint controlling the aircraft parking area.