Your get what you voted! Enjoy your fucking war.
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.
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.
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.
That’s weighs like 25 air port hotdogs!
Irl pve
Worst dungeon crawler ever
And not a mask to be found as a new variant of Covid surges…
Jesus Fucking Krist airport right now.
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.
Such a stimulated economy
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.
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.
Flying is such a giant humiliation ritual, I have no idea why people even bother.
Because places are far away
Hey MAGA, thanks for making London Heathrow a better airport.
It feels worse in real life. I was there on Sunday. Cannot recall ever being in longer lines.
I can feel the stress and exhaustion emanating from this image.
