The TSA said Friday’s travel broke a record set in November of nearly 2.91 million air passengers screened.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it screened 2.95 million airline passengers on Friday, the highest number ever on a single day.
The record travel coincides with the Memorial Day weekend that marks the beginning of the U.S. summer travel season. Last week, a group representing major U.S. airlines forecast record summer travel with airlines expected to transport 271 million passengers, up 6.3% from last year.
The TSA said Friday’s travel broke a record set in November of nearly 2.91 million air passengers screened. Five of the 10 busiest ever travel days have been since May 16, the agency said.
“Screens”, ha. TSA screens passengers like Saran Wrap’s a viable condom. Hell, Saran Wrap alone’d be better airport security than these fascist fucknuts. 🤌🏽
downvote all you want, magats. 😘
It’s all security theatre.
Idk. They were able to find my water bottle that I stashed in my backpack and forgot about pretty well. Even told me what pocket it was in.
Oh it’s totally possible for them to be effective, they just very rarely are.
Whenever I fly, I put a lighter (I don’t smoke) and a full liquid hand sanitizer spritzer in random pockets in my carryon. I still separate my normal toiletries into the required quart-sized bag, but leave the liquid hand sanitizer and lighter in the bag as a kind of test. They have never once noticed or cared, and I travel a fair amount.
If we had high speed rail in the US, this number would be far lower.
Maybe a bit lower, but I’d hesitate to say “far lower”. Rail would reduce the demand for very short (hour or less) flights, and that’s why countries like France have banned such flights entirely. But even in countries with very developed rail, the cost of rail travel often ends up more than the cost of flying for medium to long distances. That was my experience in China, which has plenty of rail options, but everyone loves to use Japan as the example to follow for “ideal rail”, so I’ll look at Japan to compare.
According to Japan Rail, a 1-way bullet train ticket from Tokyo to Kyoto is about ¥8,000, plus either a roughly ¥5,000 (reserved) or ¥6,000 (non-reserved) surcharge, so you’re looking at ¥26,000 round trip, taking about 3 hours each way. Or, going to Japan Airlines, you can fly round trip from Tokyo to Kyoto and back for about ¥13,000, taking 1.5 hours each way. I was able to find cheaper flights listed on Google Flights as well.
Despite supposedly having a very robust, very comfortable rail experience in Japan, flying is half the time and half the price. I don’t know if that’s a result of government subsidies supporting air travel over rail travel or what, but to me it seems hard to compete.
The only difference is that you can apparently just waltz up to a train station in Tokyo and buy a ticket day-of, no security to get through and no checked baggage to worry about, but I can’t imagine such spur-of-the-moment travel over such distances is the norm.
Great breakdown. But I did want to mention that a person can absolutely walk into an airport and go to a ticket counter and purchase an airplane ticket “spur of the moment.” You may not be able to get on every flight (due to overbooking) but someone will be able to help navigate that if and when it’s necessary.
