Here I am just wanting to not have to go through the TSA nudie scanner or fear getting put on the no-fly list if my mask slips below my nose before the drink cart comes around.
That said, it should be forbidden to emit this volume of emissions for the sake of so few people.
The TSA is an artifact of Dubya, both as a specific act and as a result of TWOT.
And hey, TWOT itself is a reaction to a terrorist attack that occurred under Dubya's watch and about which he was forewarned and about which he declined to act.
He then made fear a pillar of his re-election, a thoroughly right-wing playbook. He made the TSA an identity politics issue. Dubya strong!
The next republican government your deluded nation enjoyed was characterised by a Golfer-in-Chief burning as much aviation fuel as he could to pump his tacky resorts and to show off his bum in golf trousers.
And you pick NANCY PELOSI as your exemplar?
Always baffles me. HN has such ferocious intelligence, encyclopaedic knowledge, and fatheaded right-wing chump nuggets.
You can avoid that with precheck.
> or fear getting put on the no-fly list if my mask slips below my nose before the drink cart comes around.
This is definitely a real problem. It applies on private jets in most cases too, though.
There is a non-zero chance that a charter (e.g. Wheels Up or Blade) will require it. That seems to be where the bulk of the new demand is coming from.
No I can't, I was born in the wrong country and therefore may never be trusted enough to fly unmolested in America.
Precheck is an extremely weird product. If the TSA checks actually had any safety impact, trying to bribe your way around them should be the biggest red flag there is. Instead, precheck is expressly allowed and actively advertised. Precheck is nothing more than the TSA letting you pay your way out of a problem that it created.
I just flew on a private jet for the first time in August. All the paperwork and whatnot said masks were required but we never wore one from the second we walked out onto the tarmac. Nobody batted an eye. Even the pilots had theirs down below the chin while flying. I asked and they said 80%+ of their customers did not want to wear a mask, so they didn't push the topic.