• Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
    73·
    13 days ago

    Boy am I glad they’re making sure a terrorist with a bomb can’t get onto a plane to kill a lot of people packed together in a crowded place.

    • Lemming6969@lemmy.world
      3·
      13 days ago

      Terror is so easy to accomplish via random crowds and isolated unprotected infrastructure that it makes one wonder if any of it was really terror.

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
    43·
    13 days ago

    Why don’t they just let people take their assault rifles onto the plane such that they can defend themselves? Are they stupid?

    • AxExRx@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 days ago

      You dont give up your right to free speech when you get on a plane, why around you give up the right to bear arms?

      • line from an old prairie home companion when I was a kid.
      • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world
        5·
        13 days ago

        Thank you. To give another example, in Italy it is necessary to approve the budget by 31st of December. If this doesn’t happen the budget is controlled by the government but with limitations and only one month at a time. I think it’s a good compromise not to let the country collapse.

    • Spezi@feddit.org
      7·
      13 days ago

      I’d much rather have Camacho as the president. At least he knew that he should trust people smarter than him.

  • moseschrute@lemmy.world
    101·
    13 days ago

    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.

      • moseschrute@lemmy.world
        2·
        13 days ago

        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.

    • kossa@feddit.org
      3·
      12 days ago

      JFK is shit, yeah. But LAX is worse. They don’t have any designated area for overlay. You have to go through immigration, only to go through security again to get your connecting flight. And immigration is rude, like, I don’t want to enter your shitty country, you make me do it, because you apparently don’t know how to build airports.

      And security takes ages, so you wait in line, while you’re called out already to board the flight. Like I DON’T WANT TO BE IN THAT LINE! I did not want to go through immigration or security or anything. I just wanted to get my connecting flight.

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      All three NY area airports are notoriously bad in every aspect lol.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    7·
    12 days ago

    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.

    • AxExRx@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 days ago

      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?

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 days ago

        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.

  • thingAmaBob@lemmy.world
    7·
    13 days ago

    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.

    Edit: more info

  • itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml
    6·
    11 days ago

    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.