The issue is, as Dennis points out, you must plan for the worst. Especially so now that the cost of missing a flight - for whatever reason -- means greater penalties. That effective reduction in productivity and value proposition is among the factors causing the short-haul/high-fare markets to collapse. The security debacle has become the industry's Viet Nam: "we had to kill the industry, to save it". - Bob Mann -- - R.W. Mann & Company, Inc. >> Airline Industry Analysis Port Washington, NY 11050 >> tel 516-944-0900, fax -7280 mailto:RWM@RWMann.com >> URL http://www.RWMann.com/ Dennis W Zeuch wrote: > > still happens to often > I spent over 2 hours in line at Delta Tampa earlier this year (one machine > screening the entire concourse-reached by a train shuttle-) > Also Las Vegas most anytime has loooonnnggg lines (America West and ?) > Besides you cant count on line being quick-still being told to get to > airport 90-120 min prior to flight departure and lots of us lump it all > together--ya gotta leave many hours before your flight, drive to airport, try > to park, shuttle to terminal, line to airline checkin, line for security, > line at gate. The whole process is a mess I think the blame is all lumped > into one catagory---Security delays. > (probably should also blame the carriers for cutting back on staff so severly > that checkins also take forever) > Dennis