Chad Irby wrote:

When you're flying in on a hundred-seat airliner and there's four guys
working the desk, you're going to get through faster than if you're on
one of four 747-400s landing in the same hour...



You actually touch on a good point ... the BICE (Bureau of Immigration
and Customs Enforcement) is way, way understaffed, so is Customs. Plus,
they have to crosstrain to help relieve each other!

I read the USA Today's travel section (love Ben Mutzbaugh's Today
in the Sky news compendium) regularly, the TSA has been hit with
manpower cutbacks. Thus long domestic lines just to get on a plane.

gld