chicagotribune.com— Taking a tack from ski resorts, a new screening system funnels passengers into 3 categories; are you expert, casual or novice?
May 8, 2008View in Crawl 4
This has been in effect at the Salt Lake City Airport for a few months now. The expert line was definitely the longest of the three.What I'm really waiting for in terms of airline efficiency is loading the airplane by column, instead of row. "Window seats, you may board first."
They had this system at the Oakland airport on Monday when I was flying home from a weekend trip to Berkeley. I fly on at least a monthly basis and would naturally consider myself an expert traveller. Unfortunately the Homeland Security Genius (I think that's what his jacket said) was funneling everybody else into the Expert line as well....Back to the Woot Off ;)
"slalom course"...? i get the attempt on continuing with the ski theme, but unless the passengers have to run very quickly through a bunch of zigzagging gates, it's not the best choice.
listrophyMay 9, 2008
This has been in effect at the Salt Lake City Airport for a few months now. The expert line was definitely the longest of the three.What I'm really waiting for in terms of airline efficiency is loading the airplane by column, instead of row. "Window seats, you may board first."
foxfactionMay 9, 2008
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colifisMay 9, 2008
Everybody that has flown more then twice in their lives are going to consider themselves black diamonds.
timmy8765May 9, 2008
did anyone else think they were talking about an island in the pacific?
sol1May 9, 2008
They had this system at the Oakland airport on Monday when I was flying home from a weekend trip to Berkeley. I fly on at least a monthly basis and would naturally consider myself an expert traveller. Unfortunately the Homeland Security Genius (I think that's what his jacket said) was funneling everybody else into the Expert line as well....Back to the Woot Off ;)
duffydirectMay 9, 2008
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d686May 9, 2008
"slalom course"...? i get the attempt on continuing with the ski theme, but unless the passengers have to run very quickly through a bunch of zigzagging gates, it's not the best choice.