Houstonist: Now at Hobby: Choose your own security lane!

jporter

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:50:47 -0600

If the lines would go to different planes, I'd be really excited about this. But as it is, you may save a little time at the security line, but at the gate the airline is still gonna let the slow elderly people and the families with small children board the plane before you.

Jules

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:52:25 -0600

The solution: always take the blue line. The Green line will have those who -know- they'll be slow. And the black diamond will be packed with impatient assholes (and the occasional decent traveller). The blue line will be short and smooth. (Just the way I like my men.)

Jim Parsons

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:20:36 -0600

It's kind of a catch-22 in my mind: If you leave people to their own devices, everyone will choose the fast lane and make it slower. So you put screeners there to speed things up by asking people, "Do you know what you're doing?" And ... slow again.

Eric Wilson

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:07:08 -0600

My proposal: To enter the Black Diamond lane, you must solve this 5th grade-lever math problem. That would keep everyone out of that express line. Or, the ski slope idea mentioned. Moguls in the airport!

docgratis

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:52:55 -0600

Who exactly isn't going to go for "Black Diamond"? I guess I could see families traveling with kids taking their own line... But how do you keep the uninitiated out of the black diamond?