Originally Posted by
Free Bird
Actually it's not far off. Each (big) airport has it's own TSA staff and Federal Security Director or (FSD) who works in conjunction with his or her assigned airport. The TSA and the airports work out agreements on how certain aspects of the security process will work, ID readers at the gates in Atlanta is one example of local policy.
The relationship between the airlines, airports and the TSA is a very complex and political one. Political beyond what most folks realize. I see this getting standardized sometime in the next 50 years or so.
Yeah, I guess that I was using too big of a blanket in my statement. I am intimately familiar with the structure and workings of the TSA. My statement was more in response to Crewpass. This is a hq item and if it was acted upon, the direction could/should be standard across the system. Right now, it is tied up in funding and other things.