Originally Posted by
Hotel Kilo
Don't need to Google it. I lived it.
What Pistole said was it would 1 get us out of the pax screening lines (he liked that) and 2 not have crews waiting in same pax lines (ALPA and A4A liked that) thus making the screening process more efficient.
I waited in lines. Lots of different airports. Rarely was I waved forward or moved the rope to jump the line. As TSA screening became more prevalent in airports around the country, this got worse. And we're about to see a redux. I hope this new system will be better, but based on past experience I doubt it.
Then you likely had other crewmembers cutting ahead of you as well. I wasn’t sheepish about cutting ahead of another pilot or FA if they were standing in line behind a bunch of passengers for whatever reason (rare, but it happened a few times). Normally they would see me and follow my lead to the front as well.
Most of the time TSA would shout “Crew come to the front!” if they saw anyone in uniform waiting behind passengers.