This New Mom Was Mortified That Something in Her Luggage Tested Positive for Explosives

Gaps in the System

If there were fewer, higher-paid independent screeners over massive undertrained TSA teams, plane tickets could possibly halve in price. TSA employees are currently the largest expense that any airport fronts and some of them don’t even have to work with regularity to pack in the benefits of being an employee of a private airport. Over time, this has become detrimental to the economies of independent airports, because there is only so much space to staff a certain area at one moment. Due to that, providing health insurance and other incentives that TSA agents receive, like reduced cost of flights and baggage charges, actually harms the economy of transportation and causes the overstaffed TSA workers more stress…

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