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Originally Posted by kgoerz
We are not Isreal! It's a lot easier for them. Compare the number of Airports and daily flights to the U.S. They cover the amount of flights equal to one of our major Airports. We have one or more Airports and numbers of flights to Israel in everyone of our States.
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Kgoerz,
You're right....even though their system is far more effective, the problem would be the cost. I don't believe the US can afford to pay the higher wages (and for the training) for the vast number of security agents that would be required.
Maybe it's worth closely examining how they operate, extract the parts that are scalable, and build it into a new system?
By the way, don't just focus on Ben Gurion / Tel Aviv airport; the Israelis screen passengers getting onto their flights
at every airport worldwide that their airlines fly to / from. So from a logistical point of view, they have screening people at every check-in for El Al in the US, UK, Europe, Africa and Asia. Where they cannot screen people their way, they do not fly. It's an impressive system.
G