It’s an odd list of airports which contract their own security screeners. I’d bet a lot of places are going to consider joining that program:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/us/airports-without-tsa

I _just_ went though the line. It wasn't too bad (5-10min, despite having bio ID), but it was by far the worst I've encountered at SFO in the decade I've been flying out of there.

P.s. And as usual, TSA doesn't understand anything about queueing theory and doesn't implement round robin / starvation prevention. Global services and clear get absolute priority over other queues.

That's a feature, not a bug

Probably because people are going via SFO when they might otherwise go via Oakland or elsewhere.

I thought all of the lines went away after ICE came in? That's what I heard, but you can't trust the news these days.

Either because ICE is more competent than TSA or their presence is scaring away a lot of people

buffers salaries?

A strange way of saying, not TSA at all, and handled by a private for-profit company instead.

No, it's accurate, because TSA (or at least the feds) ultimately pay for it, but the company has some runway it can spend to keep the employees working on the assumption it'll be paid later, I.E. a buffer.

yeah SFO seems to be completely uneffected