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Kansas City Airport doesn't use TSA screeners, they have a private contractor doing the screening:

https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/screening-partnerships

That said, it seems like this policy is likely a TSA imposed pilot program:

https://thepointsguy.com/2017/05/paper-products-new-tsa-secu...

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I don't believe this is true, how does one tell? They appear to be TSA agents, in the blue uniforms with the TSA badges

It's true. Turns out blue shirts can be worn by just about anybody.

Here's a story from last summer about the private security at Kansas City Airport: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article79795177.html

Good find!

Oh interesting. I am curious is the experience of the privatized screening any better?

Or is the amount of humiliation, infantilizing and browbeating of regular honest people about the same as the non-privatized TSA?

There was big uproar about privatizing the TSA about a year ago when the time spent in lines was growing even more excessive. That narrative about privatizing seemed to go dark. Is the Kansas City Airport itself a pilot program for privatization of the TSA?

Yes; I live in KC. The ones in MCI are polite, as opposed to Baltimore where they strut around barking orders.

Of course MCI had a distributed security and gates, so they are smaller and thus quieter.

Yeah I think the distributed security has a lot to do with customer satisfaction. The horseshoe design is really efficient for plane parking and the drop/pickup. Unfortunately, it's terrible for logistics like transfers :/

I think it's the best airport in the country. I can get from plane to car in 3 minutes. But yes, transferring airlines would be a pain, though flights on the same airline are usually within the same security zone.

Unfortunately the KC politicians keep scheming to build a new one. Fortunately the population wants to keep it.

Portland are TSA. SF is subcontracted. In my experience on the west coast, the real TSA blow the pants off the subcontracted ones. Portland is AAAAAaaamazing

SFO also doesn't have TSA screeners, and I believe the agents' uniforms actually don't have TSA badges. (Not sure about Kansas City, but I'd be surprised if any non-TSA agents had TSA badges...)

Is this a recent development?

Been the case for years. 2006, looking it up quickly.

Their uniforms say First Line.

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