NYC Airports: We Can No Longer Tolerate TSA's 'Inadequacy'

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18. I'm a frequent flyer and live with TSA every week

Wait times will be hard to solve for many older airports as there just isn't enough room to add more xray stations.

The biggest bottleneck in the system is the xray station. The time it takes for travelers to get their stuff out, on the xray machine belt, and successfully get scanned.

This area is slowed down dramatically by inexperienced passengers who don't know what they are doing and take forever, slowing down everyone behind them, arguing with TSA staff on why they can't bring an economy size bottle of shampoo through, not understanding what has to be pulled out, having their stuff fail inspection and be reprocessed, etc. A half dozen business travelers could be processed for one person who has no clue what they are doing.

Since the older airports can't add stations, the only suggestion I have would be to add lots prep stations along the line and get everyone prepared before they get to the xray.