Fuck em. Just wait in the regular tsa line and delay travel.
They don’t get paid until the plane takes off so they’d be doing that for free
They don’t get paid while boarding and when they’re giving out headphones and dealing with drunk people before the plane takes off??
Not on most carriers as far as I know
Ah, the land of the free.
Feels worth it.
The shift from access control cards to biometrics (fingerprint or facial) is industry-wide, especially for sectors impacted by the Patriot Act. Even maritime workers are increasingly required to have their fingerprint scanned (to be compared to the print of their TWIC). I wish them the best of luck in resisting the safety tyranny.
what fun times we live in
It doesn’t officially say it, but it implies that the current system, they’re sun setting, didn’t have any type of annual fee.
If that is the case, then yeah, I would do the same thing and just not use the program. might be able to backtrack on the agreement to work with the gov as well and just go back to the old system for crew members. Makes no sense to pay more on a system that was working fine as is.
The airlines are in a pretty massive advantage here, delays for flight are already pretty heavily protected legally, as in there are laws baked into the system protecting/restricting airlines being sued for travel delays.
Worst case scenario is they can’t go back to the old program and they just cause mass delays which they can then directly blame the government for with no monetary penalty unless it goes over I think it’s a 6 hour delay.
JFC those fees. Gotta pay those Palantir contracts somehow
How much does the current system cost ?
It’s funny that in Europe, our passports have been biometric for a long time, governments have our fingerprints, but the security at my base doesn’t use it, airport workers and Cabin Crews just have their own security gate
(I’m a Cabin Crew based in Vienna, Austria)
I imagine the fingerprints are optional? I wouldn’t give out my biometrics. That’s like giving out your password
Worse, you can’t just renew it after a leak.
I won’t go thru the back scatter machine either. They have to do the physical pat down every single time. When I was traveling a lot for work the local airport TSA knew me by first name…
Bio-metric scanning, not a fucking chance.
All back scatter x-ray machines were removed from airports in the us and the eu circa 2013.
What you’re referring to is mm wave which used radio frequencies which are non ionizing and have zero cancer risk.
Back scatter always stuck w/ me as what they are all called, but the desired effect for TSA is the same. Its over reaching and I will come earlier to have the “Enhanced” screening.
And non ionizing radiation does have risks. It can cause cataracts and messes w/ sperm counts. I work with rf, L-band to Ka band we do all we can to not get any exposure.
Everyone should avoid it if they can. PSA from a old school rf guy :)
If you work with L & Ka band then you should know that RF is not cumulative in the same way ionizing radiation is. Yes it causes cataracts and low sperm count at high enough power levels, but it causes these due to local heating, eyes and testicles just happen to be the two most sensitive organs to heat. If you don’t get a high enough dose to cause damage immediately, you didn’t do any damage, and further low doses will not cause a cumulative effect.
The power emitted by mm wave scanners in airports is on the order of milliwatts, not close to enough to cause those issues.
All that said, scanners which expose passengers as if they were undressed, even if it is to a person working in a back room somewhere to flag threats, they are absolutely an over reach and metal detectors and explosive detection swabbing is more than sufficient.
