{"id":1532,"date":"2008-01-17T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T23:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2008-01-17T15:25:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T23:25:47","slug":"sf-chron-security-line-shortcut-coming-to-oakland-airport-for-a-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/sf-chron-security-line-shortcut-coming-to-oakland-airport-for-a-price\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Chron: Security-line shortcut coming to Oakland airport – for a price"},"content":{"rendered":"

As much as I love Oakland Airport<\/a>, I do think that this airport security fast-track<\/a> is bad for one basic reason: it’s easily defeated. All you have to do is be a terrorist who has a clean record and then register for this service. Then you get to bypass the line, and boom — you’ve just infiltrated the the system. <\/p>\n

Still, I think that it’s a bad idea to have tiered-service at a public place like an airport. Everyone should have to go through security, regardless if you’re a CEO flying business class or an ordinary guy who always flies coach like me. I’m sick of this premium service that cater to the wealthy. <\/p>\n

“What I didn’t understand initially was that Oakland is a big piece of the (Bay Area air travel) puzzle,” [Brill] said. “A lot of people told us that they do their business travel exclusively out of Oakland.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Also, CEO Steve Brill? Yeah, a lot of people DO use Oakland for their business travel because it’s a small and easy-to-use airport. Also, until recently Southwest and JetBlue didn’t fly out of SFO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As much as I love Oakland Airport, I do think that this airport security fast-track is bad for one basic reason: it’s easily defeated. All you have to do is be a terrorist who has a clean record and then register for this service. Then you get to bypass the line, and boom — you’ve just infiltrated the the system. Still, I think that it’s a bad idea to have tiered-service at a public place like an airport. Everyone should…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-oakland","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-oI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}