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We were leaving west palm beach on an early ass flight. Before security I asked my daughter if she had a water bottle in her backpack and if so get rid of it. Of course she said she didn’t have one but did and we got flagged

We got stuck behind some Cubans or Puerto Ricans with all kinds of shit. They were pulling out Irish spring soap, bananas, toothpaste, all kinds of shit. Looked like a grocery store

We had to wait like 20-30 mins behind them because of one fucking water bottle that immediately got thrown away

2 hours ago, rage-a-holic said:

Canned whole tomatoes are not a thing in Mexico. If you can even find them in the imported food areas, they're usually $5/can.

Whereabouts in Mexico do you live?  

This camera work is actually going to give me an aneurysm. It's like they gave the controls to some high as a kite 16 year old from Booker T. trying to make the next Hurt Locker. 

 

Someone hits the ball and you have no fucking idea if it's a good hit, tough play, routine, foul etc. 

Nailed it 

  • 1 month later...

We are flying out of Austin to Wisconsin at 10:30 Friday morning.  If we get to the airport by 7:00 should we be ok to get through security on time?  A friend who flies all the time for work says the tsa lines are pretty unpredictable right now. My wife and I have tsa precheck and clear, but my parents are going with us and they have neither.  My wife bought the tickets so they may or may not get pre-check when we check in.  I don’t want to count on it.  They both have enough bionic parts that the X-ray machine is always an adventure.

I know nothing about the current state of the lines these days, but can the parents get the 30 day free trial on CLEAR? That still around?  

I flew out at that same time last Friday. I got there at 7:30 and breezed through security. The line was long, but it was pre 9/11 screening so no taking off shoes, no taking laptops out of bags, and going through the old metal detectors. There was a bomb dog, but that was a quick process. Now obviously, past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results, but that was my experience. 

31 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

I know nothing about the current state of the lines these days, but can the parents get the 30 day free trial on CLEAR? That still around?  

I thought about that, but don't see anything about a free trial on their website.  We are on the family plan of a friend, so we don't have that option.

29 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

I flew out at that same time last Friday. I got there at 7:30 and breezed through security. The line was long, but it was pre 9/11 screening so no taking off shoes, no taking laptops out of bags, and going through the old metal detectors. There was a bomb dog, but that was a quick process. Now obviously, past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results, but that was my experience. 

wait...is that just bc there's so much overflow/huge crowds or has TSA regained some common sense??

14 minutes ago, mchookem said:

wait...is that just bc there's so much overflow/huge crowds or has TSA regained some common sense??

if the K9 is there, its like TSA Pre-check for everyone.

For what it’s worth, the bag drop and security lines this morning were a breeze, but I’m guessing a Wednesday departure is different than on Friday or Saturday. However, the FastPark shuttles were understaffed for the morning crowd, and some folks had been waiting 15 minutes or so for a shuttle.

Unrelated but does anyone know if they are going to be bringing back valet parking? We used it in March of 21 but last time we flew it was blocked off and deserted. They still have a sign for it as you drive in to the short term parking. It was obviously very convenient and not that much more expensive than other options for a weekend trip. 

I never park at the city parking lot, but Park n Zoom does valet. I’ve tried every one of the third-party parking lots and park n zoom is consistently the best service and fastest.   

49 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Fastpark + Global Entry + Clear= success

Honest question... what does Clear get you that Global Entry doesn't. 

You can skip the TSA pre-check line and regular security line.  Clear has their own lane where you scan your eyes at a machine and then are good to go. 

19 hours ago, kevwun said:

We are flying out of Austin to Wisconsin at 10:30 Friday morning.  If we get to the airport by 7:00 should we be ok to get through security on time?  A friend who flies all the time for work says the tsa lines are pretty unpredictable right now. My wife and I have tsa precheck and clear, but my parents are going with us and they have neither.  My wife bought the tickets so they may or may not get pre-check when we check in.  I don’t want to count on it.  They both have enough bionic parts that the X-ray machine is always an adventure.

Subtle but so damn funny 

7 hours ago, Mo Horn said:

Honest question... what does Clear get you that Global Entry doesn't. 

 

6 hours ago, kevwun said:

You can skip the TSA pre-check line and regular security line.  Clear has their own lane where you scan your eyes at a machine and then are good to go. 

This, but I'm yet to have problems with TSA-pre line being too long.  Clear doesn't do anything Global Entry doesn't on the way back in, unless I'm mistaken.

10 hours ago, kevwun said:

You can skip the TSA pre-check line and regular security line.  Clear has their own lane where you scan your eyes at a machine and then are good to go. 

Skip right past the line

So what happens if you use a different email and sign up for the free trial? It says If you create a second account with a new e-mail, you will not be able to complete your enrollment at the airport.

Anyone try this?

  • 1 year later...

Well if people just biked to the airport or took the mass transit train, they'd have had more time to clear the security lines. 

All of our bashing aside, I think we might be the worst run major U.S. city

  • 2 weeks later...

Get to fly out on Saturday at 6AM.  We all have pre-check so hopefully that helps somewhat.

7 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

Get to fly out on Saturday at 6AM.  We all have pre-check so hopefully that helps somewhat.

I’ve started scheduling flights between 9-11am if I can. 5-7am is the worst shit show, seemingly. 

Cheapest flights at that time of the day, so I could see that.

Flew out yesterday at 7am and it was busy but nothing crazy. TSApre took 5 minutes. 

What's super fun is that this now appears to be just a random thing that occurs every few weeks or so.  You will likely show up at the airport, and the TSA lines will be normal and manageable.  But every 20-30 days, some of us will draw the black bean, and show up with a line longer than the one outside South Austin's mom's bedroom.

17 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

What's super fun is that this now appears to be just a random thing that occurs every few weeks or so.  You will likely show up at the airport, and the TSA lines will be normal and manageable.  But every 20-30 days, some of us will draw the black bean, and show up with a line longer than the one outside South Austin's mom's bedroom.

Perhaps you have angered the universe?

It’s like literally the busiest travel weekend of the summer. You didn’t just pull a red ball out of a bag. 

Got to ABIA at 6am and my security checkpoint was pretty packed, but they were moving folks through relatively quickly. So far not a shitshow.

Got to mom’s at 6am and my security checkpoint was pretty packed, but they were moving folks through relatively quickly. So far not a shitshow.


FIFY
13 hours ago, PilotsError said:

It hasn’t just been this weekend 

Username sort of checks out.

Edited by dcbc

5am today. Precheck was 5 minutes. Maybe 30 people in line. The poors line looked like it was 20-30 minutes.

On 6/29/2023 at 8:44 PM, Anastasis said:

It’s like literally the busiest travel weekend of the summer. You didn’t just pull a red ball out of a bag. 

 

  • 1 year later...
  • 6 months later...

So, anyone have experience with the TSA process at ABIA during a gov't shutdown?  Wife and I have a flight on Friday, trying to figure out how much of a cluster it will be.

Not Austin, but I flew out of Charlotte this morning and it  was no different than a regular morning regarding TSA

Just a general FYI but pre-check a couple Friday’s ago took about 40 minutes. The new scanners are slow as shit and having all of pre-check at one checkpoint is dumb af. 

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

So, anyone have experience with the TSA process at ABIA during a gov't shutdown?  Wife and I have a flight on Friday, trying to figure out how much of a cluster it will be.

TSA, ATC and CBP workers at the airport continue to work, without pay.  

They can always not go in and cause delays, but that's usually if the shutdown exceeds 2 weeks (aka, no paycheck).  So for this week, you probably won't notice anything. 

Edited by Js1

3 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

Just a general FYI but pre-check a couple Friday’s ago took about 40 minutes. The new scanners are slow as shit and having all of pre-check at one checkpoint is dumb af. 

There must have been an issue because I've flown through the last few times. I don't even bother with using Clear anymore precheck has been so fast. The biggest issue most times is people not realizing there's 5 more scanners around the corner, so it piles up at the boarding pass checkpoint. 

3 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

Just a general FYI but pre-check a couple Friday’s ago took about 40 minutes. The new scanners are slow as shit and having all of pre-check at one checkpoint is dumb af. 

 

11 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

There must have been an issue because I've flown through the last few times. I don't even bother with using Clear anymore precheck has been so fast. The biggest issue most times is people not realizing there's 5 more scanners around the corner, so it piles up at the boarding pass checkpoint. 

I had the same issue on Thursday afternoon last week. Longest pre-check line I’ve encountered at ABIA. Didn’t seem to be any obvious issues, just volume of people and slow ass scanners. 

If the shutdown isn't resolved in the next few weeks, the Austin airport could be a shitshow with ACL Fest followed by Formula 1.

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