By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Airports frustrated with long security lines are considering firing TSA screeners and replacing them with private contractors.
As wait times have topped two and three hours at some airports, airports are looking for ways to ease the delays, Bloomberg reports.
Officials at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport are “discussing a variety of options” that included replacing TSA with a private a contractor.
Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is considering a similar move.
San Francisco International uses private screeners.
Jeff Holmgren, the TSA federal security director at the Seattle airport, maintains “there is no statistical difference in terms of effectiveness or efficiency” between federal and private screeners.
