Security lines at JFK airport, NYC
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Boy am I glad they're making sure a terrorist with a bomb can't get onto a plane to kill a lot of people packed together in a crowded place.
Can't blow up a plane if nobody can get onto the plane!
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Blows up airport instead ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Well, that's not TSAs direct job, so they don't care.
They're called TSA, not G(round)SA or A(irport)SA or... for a reason!
TBH I wonder why it hasn’t happened yet. Imagine the loss of freedom 🇺🇸 🦅 once that happens
It has, in Belgium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Brussels_bombings Maybe it wasn't close enough to scare the 'muricans?
I'm honestly not too sure USAmericans believe in Belgium.
It's like global warming or some such.
I was sort of surprised that bombing didn't have more effects than it did. It really did seem to highlight some issues.
How about onion layers of security checks that start about a mile from your gate? That way the bad guys are only in the outer lines where passenger density is still low...
Start with Vehicle check points a mile from the airport
Good.
Yes, that was the joke. lol
Let’s concentrate all the people in one place so that they can’t bring weapons onto a plane. Nothing could go wrong…
Just a half dozen bags dropped off in the course of 10 minutes.
Terror is so easy to accomplish via random crowds and isolated unprotected infrastructure that it makes one wonder if any of it was really terror.
These are poor people, so the powers that be don't care
Tired of
waitingwinning yet?Pleease Mr. President, no more winning!
Mr. President, it's too much winning!
A man came up to me once, big man, strong man, with tears in his eyes and said. Mister President we are
waitingwinning too much, please Mister President we are tired ofwaitingwinning.Good thing the US has a high speed railway network like China, Japan, Europe or Morocco, so you don't need to get on a plane. Oh.. wait...
I hear Elon Musk is getting right on that. These conservatives are so efficient and successful! Good thing we keep finding new tax breaks for them.
Why don't they just let people take their assault rifles onto the plane such that they can defend themselves? Are they stupid?
It's an airplane, not a grade school classroom.
You dont give up your right to free speech when you get on a plane, why around you give up the right to bear arms?
Is there any other country on earth that stops working altogether once a year?
Lol I was looking into this the other day. From what I understand it's to prevent too much power being with any one group in US govt ..
Short answer is no, most countries have rules that see public servants (govt. employees) paid even when a department's budget has not been agreed - for example Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932011_Belgian_government_formation
Thank you. To give another example, in Italy it is necessary to approve the budget by 31st of December. If this doesn't happen the budget is controlled by the government but with limitations and only one month at a time. I think it's a good compromise not to let the country collapse.
I agree for most countries.
The other option is if they fail to pass a budget, it triggers an automatic no confidence vote.
Only once a year? Are you talking about the US, because it seems to have stopped working quite some time ago.
The sad thing about this is that most Trump supporters probably don’t fly because either they’re always in their own bubble and/or can’t afford to. So they can’t relate to this, so it’s a non-issue sadly.
So they get to punish others for doing the things they choose not to do.
Again.
They don’t fly because God invented the car, Jesus built the highways and St Peter gave republicans the car keys.
Why share a plane with other Americans when you can just drive around, as god intended ?
To be fair, road trips ARE a thing, and it's not just because of cost and random religious factors. Sometimes seeing the countryside is really cool in addition to the destination's reason.
Looks like a freedom country chicken farm
Your get what you voted! Enjoy your fucking war.
I’d honestly just cancel my holiday instead going through that trauma.
wife and i have to fly out of LGA in may to go to daughter’s wedding. not looking forward to the travel. sigh.
people who think they can go though a US airport nowadays is a form of white entitlement
Just wait in the line like a grown up. You can do it!
did you mean Trump JFK Airport?
I wish he got an airport award!
I just created the "Me, I think he deserves an airport award" award and I'm honored to...
Anyway, squirrel!
Yeah but.. Is America great again yet?
The American electorate, truly the greatest in the world
I’d much rather have Camacho as the president. At least he knew that he should trust people smarter than him.
Camacho was a great president. I submit the following:
When faced with a problem he didn't know how to solve, he appointed the best person he could find and listened to their advice.
Upon realizing that he made a mistake, he reversed course and corrected.
I don't think he ever raped a minor.
Cudos for being a dumbass but not a pedo (to Camacho not to you 😅)
Oh I will be the first to admit I'm a dumbass but not a pedo!
Kudos to you as well friend!
Good to have no pedos around. Us dumbasses have to stick together
Ideal politician tbh. Charismatic and engages the people he represents. Defers to, and it's his support behind this that are more competent in their subject matter.
Yeah guys send the Gestappo. They fix everything
There are several terminals with security checkpoints, this does not represent “JFK Airport” as a whole. This shown terminal is T5, JetBlue’s terminal.
Edit: who downvoted, lol. I’ve been to JFK 4 times this week. Nothing I said is untrue. It literally says Jetblue check in on the sign. Go pound sand.
Have you visited the other terminals as well? Are they significantly better and this is an outlier, or is this typical peak hours for jfk right now?
Yes. Though I obviously didn’t tour the airport looking for problems. Delta’s was long but not awful. AA’s was relatively short. Didn’t see the international terminal. No idea what constitutes “peak”, but NY is heading into NY school’s spring break season, so things will get busy for the airports.
I’ve only been to JFK once, but I get the sense that the lines there always look like this. Not saying all the other stuff isn’t an issue, but don’t give JFK any credit. Hands down the worst airport I’ve been to. Avoid at all cost.
I can see you've never been to Newark
I mostly fly out of Newark. I’m not saying Newark is good, but nothing like what I saw at JFK. JFK was so bad, they had a staff member split the security line in half and escort us to another level of the airport. And the entire time at JFK people were trying to upsell us on CLEAR to skip the line.
I have never seen Newark move a security line, and I’ve never had someone try to sell me CLEAR WHILE IM ALREADY IN YHE SECURITY LINE. Never again JFK.
I flew put of newark yesterday and we waited longer to check our bag than to get through security. Maybe 10 minutes at the most
JFK is shit, yeah. But LAX is worse. They don't have any designated area for overlay. You have to go through immigration, only to go through security again to get your connecting flight. And immigration is rude, like, I don't want to enter your shitty country, you make me do it, because you apparently don't know how to build airports.
And security takes ages, so you wait in line, while you're called out already to board the flight. Like I DON'T WANT TO BE IN THAT LINE! I did not want to go through immigration or security or anything. I just wanted to get my connecting flight.
I flew out of JFK terminal 1 recently (not sure how much the terminals matter/differ as it was my first time flying from JFK) about 2 weeks ago and didn't spend more than maybe 20-30 minutes in the TSA line? It really wasn't long at all so hearing wait times of hours and such seems crazy to me.
All three NY area airports are notoriously bad in every aspect lol.
IDK after the upgrades LGA has been pretty great
I’ve only been to LGA once, and a friend drove me, but it was a good airport experience. Half of my hate for JFK is just getting there. I might be biased towards LGA because I didn’t have to drive to LGA personally. But I was there after the renovation and it’s a nice terminal.
JFC
No, it's JFK
Jesus Fucking Khrist
Woosh 😁
But sir, it appears that it is actually you that has been wooshed.
😭 plz help me understand
I was making a joke :D
I guess this is why /s is so prevalent these days, it's very easy to be wooshed.
Well I tried to do a joke too, JFK => JFC jesus fucking christ 😅
Looks like we share the same brain cell, just opposite polarity xD
Upon careful consideration I may also have been wooshed. I don't know what's going on.
This is probably not far off from what it's like to be at that airport right now.
I deliberately searched for this comment.
JFC it's JFK! F dat, gonna go to KFC.
My coworker noped out of a trip across country because they’d have a grandchild with them, and didn’t want any issues with missing flights, long waits, or ICE shenanigans. If they didn’t have their grandchild, they probably would have taken the train instead.
Edit: more info
Are the flights backed up to, or are they just leaving half empty all the time?
The flights are probably a mixed bag. There are also cases where they just open up the lines and let everyone through without passing through security screening. It's happened a few times, though I've never gotten so lucky.
Could you imagine if you were on hour 10 of waiting through the line, just managed to get to the front and then they told everyone to just go through? I'd cuss someone out hard.
But I can't find a partner who also wants to bonk and bonking alone just isn't as good.
I had to sleep in JFK Airport once. I don't recommend it. The rats that come out at night are the size of a ~25 pound dog.
That's weighs like 25 air port hotdogs!
Irl pve
Worst dungeon crawler ever
Jesus Fucking Krist airport right now.
Zero sympathy for USian planet incinerating jet-set crowd. They got what they voted for.
The racist, hillbilly morons who voted for this are not "jet-setters." They've probably never even been on a jet.
You underestimate the number of half-wit yuppies who are MAGA. The number of them in my home city is absurd and theyre the exact fucking reason the area is even urbanizing while they bitch about urbanizing factors is absurd, sorry Janice but the light industry is an expected economic factor for a city population. Sincerely a SoCal Hick.
Right? People seem to forget that ~50% of voters went for dump. That's not 100% rural and 0% urban, 100% rich and 0% poor... There are a lot of assholes who have money (lawyers, doctors, small business owners, engineers, teachers, nurses, police, firemen, emts, pilots, office workers in healthcare, government bureaucrats, etc., etc.) that think they 'earned' all that money and 'the left' (super big air quotes with a funny voice on that one) just wants to take it from them and give it to the stoner living in the basement of his grandmother's friend who looks at him funny on sunday nights when she asks him if he wants to share some of her beef stew. There's also a lot of folks who are in a trailer on the property that their great-grandparents once owned, along with their 3 siblings, 7 cousins, and 11 second cousins in their own trailers, while their father and aunt and uncle fight over who gets to keep living in the actual house after someone clogged the septic system over the weekend, and sure, they vote republican and will never get on a jet, but they're likely the minority, humorously enough.
And not a mask to be found as a new variant of Covid surges…
I feel like I'm missing something, what's the context?
TSA (the security theater people) had been unfunded for the last 50 or so days
Additional context:
TSA is part of DHS (Department of Homeland Security). ICE and border patrol are also a part of DHS.
After ICE started shooting citizens, the democrats said “no additional funding without some reforms.” In trumps Big Beautiful Bill ICE was already given a huge chunk of funding for the next few years, but they would like more.
Democrats have been trying to fund TSA but want a separate vote for ICE. This arrangement recently passed the senate but republicans in the house voted it down because they think they can pin the blame on the democrats and force them to give ICE more funding along with the TSA.
They didnt vote on it as far as I know. MJ just won't allow it to be brought for a vote because it would probably pass.
Hey MAGA, thanks for making London Heathrow a better airport.
This is what happens when you're state/city doesn't upgrade your airport either. I just flew through SFO and DIA this past week and security was under 5 minutes because they dont rely on TSA staff for the majority of their functions.
I flew round trip to JFK from SFO. Departing SFO felt normal. JFK was a nightmare.
Flying is such a giant humiliation ritual, I have no idea why people even bother.
Because places are far away
What? Why? What changed?
I think TSA isn’t getting paid so presumably they’re understaffed
Lol wtf
In addition he send the ICE goons to airports. I've seen pictures where they operate the computer-terminals. Some looked like teens. Can't say if they're at JFK too, though.
Landed at JFK terminal 1 today and there was plenty of ICE goons about, all just standing around and chatting amongst themselves.
Oh yeah baby America is so back
Where are people even going? I know we're all kind of on that bandwagon where we just disassociate with the bad events happening everywhere right now as a defense mechanism but how does traveling make any sense right now? I just can't
Work. Studies. Family. Funerals. Escaping reality. Evading justice. Lots of reasons.
It feels worse in real life. I was there on Sunday. Cannot recall ever being in longer lines.
The greatest country on earth
I flew out of EWR on Friday and my flight left (the gate) on time. Now, we took off 30m late because of the traffic at our final destination, but security was 10m and we were on the plane on time. It was incredible. The longest wait was to get the kids some chicken fingers, that was like 30m.
I had to go through the Atlanta airport shortly after the “4 hour wait” stories started hitting. I showed up 3 hours earlier than normal to be safe, and when I got there they had every station manned and ICE was basically just waiving everyone through. Took me about 2 minutes to get through security.
Kind of illustrates how pointless TSA is in the first place, but I’d rather have had that four hour wait than have to be within 50 ft of ICE.
What is this? A No Kings airport?
Such a stimulated economy
I can feel the stress and exhaustion emanating from this image.
Wow! When is this from? Thanksgiving 2017?