The sad thing about this is that most Trump supporters probably don’t fly because either they’re always in their own bubble and/or can’t afford to. So they can’t relate to this, so it’s a non-issue sadly.
So they get to punish others for doing the things they choose not to do.
Again.
They don’t fly because God invented the car, Jesus built the highways and St Peter gave republicans the car keys.
Why share a plane with other Americans when you can just drive around, as god intended ?
Your get what you voted! Enjoy your fucking war.
did you mean Trump JFK Airport?
I wish he got an airport award!
I just created the “Me, I think he deserves an airport award” award and I’m honored to…
Anyway, squirrel!
There are several terminals with security checkpoints, this does not represent “JFK Airport” as a whole. This shown terminal is T5, JetBlue’s terminal.
Edit: who downvoted, lol. I’ve been to JFK 4 times this week. Nothing I said is untrue. It literally says Jetblue check in on the sign. Go pound sand.
Have you visited the other terminals as well? Are they significantly better and this is an outlier, or is this typical peak hours for jfk right now?
Yes. Though I obviously didn’t tour the airport looking for problems. Delta’s was long but not awful. AA’s was relatively short. Didn’t see the international terminal. No idea what constitutes “peak”, but NY is heading into NY school’s spring break season, so things will get busy for the airports.
Are the flights backed up to, or are they just leaving half empty all the time?
The flights are probably a mixed bag. There are also cases where they just open up the lines and let everyone through without passing through security screening. It’s happened a few times, though I’ve never gotten so lucky.
Could you imagine if you were on hour 10 of waiting through the line, just managed to get to the front and then they told everyone to just go through? I’d cuss someone out hard.
I’ve only been to JFK once, but I get the sense that the lines there always look like this. Not saying all the other stuff isn’t an issue, but don’t give JFK any credit. Hands down the worst airport I’ve been to. Avoid at all cost.
I can see you’ve never been to Newark
I mostly fly out of Newark. I’m not saying Newark is good, but nothing like what I saw at JFK. JFK was so bad, they had a staff member split the security line in half and escort us to another level of the airport. And the entire time at JFK people were trying to upsell us on CLEAR to skip the line.
I have never seen Newark move a security line, and I’ve never had someone try to sell me CLEAR WHILE IM ALREADY IN YHE SECURITY LINE. Never again JFK.
I flew put of newark yesterday and we waited longer to check our bag than to get through security. Maybe 10 minutes at the most
I flew out of JFK terminal 1 recently (not sure how much the terminals matter/differ as it was my first time flying from JFK) about 2 weeks ago and didn’t spend more than maybe 20-30 minutes in the TSA line? It really wasn’t long at all so hearing wait times of hours and such seems crazy to me.
All three NY area airports are notoriously bad in every aspect lol.
IDK after the upgrades LGA has been pretty great
I’ve only been to LGA once, and a friend drove me, but it was a good airport experience. Half of my hate for JFK is just getting there. I might be biased towards LGA because I didn’t have to drive to LGA personally. But I was there after the renovation and it’s a nice terminal.
My coworker noped out of a trip across country because they’d have a grandchild with them, and didn’t want any issues with missing flights, long waits, or ICE shenanigans. If they didn’t have their grandchild, they probably would have taken the train instead.
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Zero sympathy for USian planet incinerating jet-set crowd. They got what they voted for.
The racist, hillbilly morons who voted for this are not “jet-setters.” They’ve probably never even been on a jet.
You underestimate the number of half-wit yuppies who are MAGA. The number of them in my home city is absurd and theyre the exact fucking reason the area is even urbanizing while they bitch about urbanizing factors is absurd, sorry Janice but the light industry is an expected economic factor for a city population. Sincerely a SoCal Hick.
Right? People seem to forget that ~50% of voters went for dump. That’s not 100% rural and 0% urban, 100% rich and 0% poor… There are a lot of assholes who have money (lawyers, doctors, small business owners, engineers, teachers, nurses, police, firemen, emts, pilots, office workers in healthcare, government bureaucrats, etc., etc.) that think they ‘earned’ all that money and ‘the left’ (super big air quotes with a funny voice on that one) just wants to take it from them and give it to the stoner living in the basement of his grandmother’s friend who looks at him funny on sunday nights when she asks him if he wants to share some of her beef stew. There’s also a lot of folks who are in a trailer on the property that their great-grandparents once owned, along with their 3 siblings, 7 cousins, and 11 second cousins in their own trailers, while their father and aunt and uncle fight over who gets to keep living in the actual house after someone clogged the septic system over the weekend, and sure, they vote republican and will never get on a jet, but they’re likely the minority, humorously enough.
And not a mask to be found as a new variant of Covid surges…
Jesus Fucking Krist airport right now.
I had to sleep in JFK Airport once. I don’t recommend it. The rats that come out at night are the size of a ~25 pound dog.
Irl pve
Worst dungeon crawler ever
That’s weighs like 25 air port hotdogs!
Such a stimulated economy
I feel like I’m missing something, what’s the context?
TSA (the security theater people) had been unfunded for the last 50 or so days
Additional context:
TSA is part of DHS (Department of Homeland Security). ICE and border patrol are also a part of DHS.
After ICE started shooting citizens, the democrats said “no additional funding without some reforms.” In trumps Big Beautiful Bill ICE was already given a huge chunk of funding for the next few years, but they would like more.
Democrats have been trying to fund TSA but want a separate vote for ICE. This arrangement recently passed the senate but republicans in the house voted it down because they think they can pin the blame on the democrats and force them to give ICE more funding along with the TSA.
They didnt vote on it as far as I know. MJ just won’t allow it to be brought for a vote because it would probably pass.
Where are people even going? I know we’re all kind of on that bandwagon where we just disassociate with the bad events happening everywhere right now as a defense mechanism but how does traveling make any sense right now? I just can’t
Work. Studies. Family. Funerals. Escaping reality. Evading justice. Lots of reasons.
This is what happens when you’re state/city doesn’t upgrade your airport either. I just flew through SFO and DIA this past week and security was under 5 minutes because they dont rely on TSA staff for the majority of their functions.
I flew round trip to JFK from SFO. Departing SFO felt normal. JFK was a nightmare.
