Handling
Unintentionally funny bit from an article today. The article discusses the lack of delays today from passengers requesting a “pat-down” instead of going through backscatter machines. Then it switches topics to the more general issue of other kinds of airport delays today, and it notes:
Some travelers also faced technical glitches. Spirit Airlines was forced to handle its passengers manually at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after its computers experienced problems.
—“Fliers facing minimal airport delays, despite protest threats,” by Alan Levin, USA Today
To which I thought: Isn't handling passengers manually what the TSA pat-down fuss is all about?