<story><title>Concorde ‘B’</title><url>https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tetrep</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a wealth of public transit options that will reliably get you from Manhattan to JFK in about an hour.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t waited in a security line at an airport for more than 30 minutes in years. When lines get long they drop the security theater and start letting people through very quickly. I imagine people who are willing to pay for SST would also pay the troll toll and spend comparatively very little time in security lines.&lt;p&gt;For context, I fly (usually coast to coast) about a dozen or more times a year.</text></item><item><author>zwieback</author><text>I have a hard time imagining SST making any sense given that we spend hours stuck in traffic, then stuck in the TSA line, customs, stuck in traffic again. The gain of a few hours from NY to London or Paris doesn&amp;#x27;t seem enough. If you could extend the range to where you can do really long-haul flights maybe it would be interesting to a tiny elite.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hammock</author><text>I was (trying) to fly out of jfk terminal 7 yesterday coast to coast. The line at security was 2-3 hours long and there is no precheck lane. They were still naked scanning over 50% of passengers. I had to cut the line to make my flight.&lt;p&gt;This is not typical, but it does still happen even at the airports you mentioned.</text></comment>
<story><title>Concorde ‘B’</title><url>https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tetrep</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a wealth of public transit options that will reliably get you from Manhattan to JFK in about an hour.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t waited in a security line at an airport for more than 30 minutes in years. When lines get long they drop the security theater and start letting people through very quickly. I imagine people who are willing to pay for SST would also pay the troll toll and spend comparatively very little time in security lines.&lt;p&gt;For context, I fly (usually coast to coast) about a dozen or more times a year.</text></item><item><author>zwieback</author><text>I have a hard time imagining SST making any sense given that we spend hours stuck in traffic, then stuck in the TSA line, customs, stuck in traffic again. The gain of a few hours from NY to London or Paris doesn&amp;#x27;t seem enough. If you could extend the range to where you can do really long-haul flights maybe it would be interesting to a tiny elite.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>&amp;gt; When lines get long they drop the security theater and start letting people through very quickly.&lt;p&gt;Which airports? US domestic flights? Because internationally I&amp;#x27;ve never seen this happen.</text></comment>