• stumu415@lemmy.zip
    801·
    9 days ago

    Good thing the US has a high speed railway network like China, Japan, Europe or Morocco, so you don’t need to get on a plane. Oh… wait…

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      9 days ago

      I hear Elon Musk is getting right on that. These conservatives are so efficient and successful! Good thing we keep finding new tax breaks for them.

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
    75·
    9 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
      3·
      7 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
        11·
        9 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.

        • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
          6·
          9 days ago

          I think it’s a good compromise not to let the country collapse.

          I agree for most countries.

    • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
      23·
      9 days ago

      Only once a year? Are you talking about the US, because it seems to have stopped working quite some time ago.

  • xSikes@feddit.onlineEnglish
    491·
    9 days ago

    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.

    • FackCurs@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 days ago

      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 ?

      • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
        1·
        7 days ago

        To be fair, road trips ARE a thing, and it’s not just because of cost and random religious factors. Sometimes seeing the countryside is really cool in addition to the destination’s reason.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    15·
    8 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·
      7 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·
        7 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.

  • Mose13@lemmy.world
    131·
    9 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.

      • Mose13@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 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.

    • Ghost@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      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.

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

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

        • Mose13@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 days ago

          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.

    • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
      1·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 days ago

        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.

  • thingAmaBob@lemmy.world
    10·
    9 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
    7·
    8 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.

  • Sarmyth@lemmy.world
    7·
    8 days ago

    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.