YYC seems like a perfectly fine airport. Close to downtown. Small navigable. And the Canadian security guys screening the carny on stuff were super efficient.
I wish I could say the same of the US TSA people there at pre-clearance. Let me say here, that the individual TSA guys were very nice. There just weren't enough of them. The pre-clearance facility last Friday morning was a madhouse. Thank you, TSA, for bringing all the charms of the third world to Calgary.
By the time I got to the gate, they were making announcements that the flight would be delayed because 20 passengers were still held up with TSA.
As an AmCit traveling home, I had to wonder if all of this could in any way be worth it. Are we really safer because of this?
Hey, Janet Napolitano, you know how restaurants and movie theaters have extra people working to cover their periods of high demand? You might want to think of doing the same and hiring some people to cover the peak periods in Calgary.
I and all the other passengers paid for this execrable service with the security fee built into the ticket price. WTF?