Air passengers will have to pay to save money?

Do you know how to save a bucks 50 quick on air tickets? Simple. Simply use a carry-on bag.

Or fly JetBlue or Southwest, where you can still get a free verified bag. Most other companies charge $25 (and the agile spirit to Spirit Airlines charge you for checked baggage and carry-ons, so look at your portfolio on this discount carrier).

If you follow my savings tip and then supposedly you and everyone in the brigade of carry-on baggage will be liquidating the Transportation Security Administration 260 million costs of $ more per year is screening costs. And that you think that's going to pay? We will, one way or another.

A rapid dive in this amount heavy has scratching me my head.

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Today airline passengers do the smart thing to packing light and luggage. This trend picked up steam after American Airlines became the first of the old school airlines to start charging for checked bags in 2008 (a mere $15 back then).

But Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said now that all of these carry-ons create more work for TSA, at the rate of a quarter of a billion dollars a year.

Travelers with their luggage are visible in a line of check-in at the airport to Chicago O'Hare International, Illinois. Secretary of security inland Janet Napolitano said that all of these carry-ons create more work for TSA, at the rate of a quarter of a billion dollars a year. Close

"There is more to inspect the door and so on," Napolitano said recently a Subcommittee Senate appropriations on Homeland Security.

Wait a second. I have a few questions - that is where this astronomical figure comes from?

As TSA reminds us more and more, all bags are screened - checked and carry-on baggage. Ms. Napolitano suggests that more eyeballs are required to carry-ons screen as checked baggage?

Said the TSA Web site it has 48,000 screeners at American airports, although Rep. John Mica, R - Fla., of the Standing Committee on transportation & Infrastructure CITES 67 000 employees; It is probably including federal marshals of the Air, the management and similar of the TSA inspectors. This sounds like many people, and after all, the Department of Homeland Security is the third largest Cabinet Department (after the defence and veterans).

This brings to mind a quote from Thomas Macaulay: "Empires which branch widely are often more thriving for a bit of pruning in a timely manner."

Pruning apparently not in the cards, although the logic requires a simple change of personnel in the region of bags less (checked-baggage) in the region of bags more (carry-on lines) right?

At least, Ms. Napolitano, show us some good old Ross Perot charts that justify the difference in these expenses of hand work.

And you might want to set aside a sum of money for remedial training after incident embarrassing last week, involving a passenger who succeeded in boarding her flight to JetBlue at JFK with knives in his carry-on luggage.

Question: more people use luggage, Yes, but are there total bags today? Consider that in 2007, there were 835 million air passengers at US airports. But, by 2010, this number was reduced to 719 million, down 16%. Certainly all these extra flyers in 2007--116 million of them who are now lighter packaging - required more time of door that today ' hui thinned on herd.

Last question: who would pay for additional funds for the TSA and the Enigma of their carry-on baggage? Secretary of homeland security that there is no affect if the AP quoted a Senator asking if airlines should help offset some of the additional costs, perhaps from "the profits of these charges".