gary leff

@timinskas laying out what the law says, what's actually possible, and what the consequences of a decision are is not .. being political

@garyleff If the lines move faster, I don’t give a flying flip who is there for security. Stop being political Gary.

Trump Says ICE Will Fix TSA Lines Monday — Thats Illegal And Weakens Security - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/trump-says-ice…

They'd actually have to be transferred under the authority of the TSA administrator, and there is specific minimum training requirements outlined in 49 USC § 44901. There's no capacity to do the training at scale for ~ 4k - 5k ICE agents-turned-screeners. And what about ICE (and Homeland Security Investigations agents detailed to ICE) it seems like this would undermine certain other policy priorities of the President?

POTUS combines a good idea with a bad one here. Redeploying federal law enforcement personnel to airport security to reduce waiting times is not terrible (although they'd have to be trained), but obviously ICE agents would need to be doing airport security, not deporting people.

United Airlines Accidentally Emailed Every Flight Attendant That They Were Moving To London [Roundup] - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/united-airline…

JetBlue Pilots Sue To Stop The United Partnership — Claiming It Violates Their Contract - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/jetblue-pilots…

Rove Miles May Have The Best Hotel Trick In Points — Burn Miles, Earn Hotel Points And Elite Credit - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/rove-miles-may…

Elon Musk Offers To Pay TSA Salaries As Security Lines Spiral Out Of Control — Can He Even Do That? - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/elon-musk-offe…

Air Canada Flight Attendants Are Furious About Better Seats And Service - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/air-canada-fli…

@jbhopp @zackorizzi Lots of ways to characterize 'biggest' - American is smaller by revenue and seat miles (they fly a lot of shorter flights, and they earn less, but thave more departures, planes and passengers).

@zackorizzi @garyleff Lol. American operates 40% of the total flights between the big three. DL & UA about 30% each. American is still the biggest airline in the world. 2026 departure chart comparison from Simple Flying.

Delta Just Added Austin-Phoenix — And American Airlines Now Has A Two-Front War To Fight - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/delta-just-add…

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@garyleff Gary, aren't there major security issues at this play with so many people together, landside? This seems like a bad idea in this heightened threat environment.

This is literally manufactured. We are doing this to ourselves.

Citibank Is Slashing Points Transfers To Two Partners April 19 — One Drops 25%, The Other 50% - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/citibank-is-sl…

Lufthansa Is Testing Dirtier Coach Cabins — While Business Class Still Gets Cleaned Between Flights - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/lufthansa-is-t…

Hyatt May Add An Elite Tier Above Globalist — And Turn Current Benefits Into One-Stay Rewards - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/hyatt-may-add-…

@Enilria6 My point is the war is not Austin, it'll be Miami and now that Delta knows they don't / can't respond even another incursion.

@garyleff War is over; American gave up on their hopes and dreams there and now seems content to just be a spoke carrier...with a giant club, that they probably committed to before they downsized

Air India Made Passengers Endure A 14-Hour Flight To Nowhere — It Sent An Ex-Delta Plane Without Enough Oxygen For The Route - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/air-india-made…

@marcscribner I wrote about that threat in December 2001. We saw it play out in Brussels and Istanbul. It is not merely theoretical or surprise long tail risk.

As an aside, it’s telling that public concern about TSA wait times focuses on the inconvenience it causes travelers. Concentrating a bunch of people outside the sterile area of an airport is a huge security problem. It shows how people don’t take airport security seriously.

Denver Airport Lost Power — And Passengers Were Trapped [Roundup] - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/denver-airport…

@DanFriedman81 West Egg is Great Neck and Fitzgerald was living there while writing the novel, after all...

It has always been pretty evident that Gatsby was supposed to be Jewish. It makes a lot more sense if Tom’s bigotry is aimed at him. Also American class politics are not rigid enough to explain why Daisy never considers him a serious option, even when he shows richer than her terrible husband and offering to rescue her from her bad marriage. An ethnic/racial angle is always implied. And, of course, his name, Gatz, sounds Jewish and he’s in business with Meyer Wolfsheim who is explicitly Jewish. Not surprising that he was written as Jewish and 1920s era editors encouraged Fitzgerald to make this less explicit.