A friend was at JFK today for a domestic flight. She was at the TSA security screening checkpoint at Terminal 4. She was flying Delta Airlines.
This is the sign that she saw at the TSA security screening point:
She said that the TSA agent said this is new rule, applicable to all passengers, and that it just began today. She told me that she does not have TSA-Pre or Global Entry and that she was not flying First or Business Class. I grilled her a second time. She again said no, she was not on a TSA-pre line.
So, either: (1) there is something new in the works, (2) my friend is mistaken, or (3) the TSA agents at Terminal 4 were violating the applicable guidelines. What’s your guess? (mine is the third!)
In any event, I kind of like the adaptations made to the sign!
Photo, care of Olivia Cha
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This sign was not a TSA sign, it was put up by an airline, as many do, which is not allowed. The sign was for PreCheck lanes, not general lanes. The sign was removed by the TSA this afternoon around 18:40hrs.
– Fish
very interesting! Of course, I’d like to know why a passenger was being told that this was a new program, and she did not have to take off her shoes, etc. even though she was not TSA pre. Of course, I’d also like to know the source of your info, but then you’d probably have to kill me, right?
I was in that line yesterday at 3:30 pm and saw that sign and took the same pic. It was the precheck line.
That sign never existed, plus whoever claims they actually saw the sign before it was dropped in a memory hole is now on their way to Guantanamo, plus whoever writes about that non-existent sign will be fitted with a black hood and sent by private jet to a black site in an undisclosed Central Asian location where Dick Cheney will personally interrogate you in the Urdu tongue among stalagmites in a cave as long as the electricity holds out or until his glasses fog up. Dick’s a patriot so he likes it, especially if you feign ignorance and it takes longer. Either you’re with us or against us. Shut up and move along. Nothing to see here.