How Israel handles airport security
Article leaves out the very real and very big catch:<p>"Israel values its security, and pays for it. According to an analysis by Bloomberg News, Israel spends around 10 times more per passenger than the United States does."<p>A little more on that:<p>"[An analyst] estimated El Al's security bill at $100 million a year, which amounts to $76.92 per trip by its 1.3 million passengers. Half is paid by the Israeli government," Peter Robison wrote. The United States, in comparison, spent in 2008 $5.74 billion to monitor and protect 735,297,000 enplanements, or around $7.80 a passenger."<p>The TSA system is a production line - hire cheap unskilled labor, and train around a process and manuals.<p>In the USA the Israeli version would be very difficult in addition to very costly.<p>That doesn't even take into account the question of the uproar the system would cause with the suggestion of racial profiling.<p>References via:<p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aFyfihM1e3G4&refer=politics" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...</a><p>and<p><a href="http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/01/07/would_you_pay_25_for_71_seconds_of_scrutiny_in_an_airport" rel="nofollow">http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/01/07/would_you_pay...</a>