PreCheck TSA lines are even more of a ripoff now than they were before

Those PreCheck TSA lines are no longer the shortcut they used to be.

The TSA line crisis of 2016 continues to take a toll on air travel, as no one is at all interested in standing in line for four hours for a two hour flight. It’s expensive, it’s frustrating and it’s getting to the point where paying for gas isn’t that bad of a trade off.

There was once a small glimmer of hope for the alleviation of those aviation lines — but that drop has dried up in the terminal desert.

According to the New York Times, those PreCheck TSA lines that were supposed to make your life easier — even if they drained your funds — are now doing the opposite.

In theory, the PreCheck TSA policy is amazing. You pay $85 for five years of being able to skip those long security lines and head straight to the terminal. They seemed like an even better idea once TSA lines got longer and longer and the wait to get through security became even more excruciating.

The number of people enrolled in the PreCheck program tripled since the TSA line crisis began but that hasn’t alleviated anything. The problem of not having enough TSA employees to man the long lines hasn’t changed and it’s instead bubbled over to the now clogged pipe of people trying to run through the PreCheck service.

It makes sense, it’s just mind-numbingly frustrating.

Basically, if you’re looking to fly anywhere this summer or for the foreseeable future, the lines aren’t going to get any shorter no matter where you try to run.

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