It seems that SFO's policy of having an intermediate company that buffers salaries is working well because I flew through there to Taipei after this whole situation and there was no wait.

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acdha 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It’s an odd list of airports which contract their own security screeners. I’d bet a lot of places are going to consider joining that program:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/us/airports-without-tsa

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elromulous 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I _just_ went though the line. It wasn't too bad (5-10min, despite having bio ID), but it was by far the worst I've encountered at SFO in the decade I've been flying out of there.

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elromulous 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

P.s. And as usual, TSA doesn't understand anything about queueing theory and doesn't implement round robin / starvation prevention. Global services and clear get absolute priority over other queues.

	▲	1986 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's a feature, not a bug

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NewJazz 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Probably because people are going via SFO when they might otherwise go via Oakland or elsewhere.

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Ferret7446 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought all of the lines went away after ICE came in? That's what I heard, but you can't trust the news these days.

Either because ICE is more competent than TSA or their presence is scaring away a lot of people

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nubg 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

buffers salaries?

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Someone1234 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

A strange way of saying, not TSA at all, and handled by a private for-profit company instead.

	▲	BobaFloutist 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		No, it's accurate, because TSA (or at least the feds) ultimately pay for it, but the company has some runway it can spend to keep the employees working on the assumption it'll be paid later, I.E. a buffer.

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ozi 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

yeah SFO seems to be completely uneffected