Not enough lives on aircraft commuting to smaller airports to justify TSA (legal, dollar)

[jojajn]

Would save 115 million to put up to 50 lives at risk on each flight.

The Transportation Security Administration is considering eliminating passenger screening at more than 150 small and medium-sized airports across the US.

The internal documents from June and July suggest the move could save $115 million annually, money that could be used to bolster security at larger airports.

passengers and luggage arriving from these smaller airports would be screened when they arrive at major airports for connecting flights instead of the current practice of joining the already screened population at the larger airport.

The policy change would affect about 10,000 passengers who are screened by 1,299 TSA employees daily, which amounts to about 0.5% of the people who fly out of US airports on any given day.

TSA considering eliminating screening at smaller airports

[Frank DeForrest]

Maybe I missed ot, but where does it say airlines wont have their own security measures in place absent TSA goons?

[Loveshiscountry]

Get rid of the TSA and let each airline pay for their own security measures if they so choose to. Tons of money saved and problem solved.
But who will save me if government can't????

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

Where does it say airlines wont have their own security measures in place absent TSA goons?

Where does it say they will? Who will pay for it?

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by Loveshiscountry

Get rid of the TSA and let each airline pay for their own security measures if they so choose to. Tons of money saved and problem solved.
But who will save me if government can't????

Lets legalize plastic guns too. What can possibly go wrong?

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by jojajn

Where does it say they will? Who will pay for it?

so you're assuming airlines will willingly forgo security measures on their multi million dollar aircraft and risk loss of life that may devastate them financially

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

so you're assuming airlines will willingly forgo security measures on their multi million dollar aircraft and risk loss of life that may devastate them financially

If airlines do their own screening, that ought to increase the price of flying.

[Retroit]

No bureaucrat can come up with a way to pay for it?...like maybe charging the passengers? (duh!)

[rebeldor]

Originally Posted by jojajn

Would save 115 million to put up to 50 lives at risk on each flight.

TSA considering eliminating screening at smaller airports

Boy, you're just CRAVING that police state, aren't you?

The TSA has been quietly tracking American travelers who are not on government watch lists

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by jojajn

If airlines do their own screening, that ought to increase the price of flying.

It should yes. Other than the airlines customers who else should pay for their screening?