Blake Scholl: belief

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…When I move through security, that is not at supersonic speed. Precheck has gotten more crowded. Clear won’t actually take my application, and that’s more crowded, too. How do we make that part of flying quicker? It’s all a farce. I think we know that. Personal story. The first time I got married, I flew from San Francisco to Seattle, got married outside Seattle, then flew through Heathrow to Rome. We’re in Venice, and my wife says, like, “Hey, Blake, could you find the whatever in my purse?” I start rifling through her purse, and I find a box cutter. The literal weapon used on 9/11 has been brought through SFO, Seattle, and London Heathrow with nobody catching it. We are not actually stopping terrorists. What we need is to solve the regulatory problem where nobody’s incentivized to do anything that’s risk on. If you’re the bureaucrat that perpetuates a bit more security monstrosity, it’s totally fine. If you’re the one that actually takes a bit more risk and then something happens, then that’s career-ending. I think that is a fundamental problem we need to solve. There is a problem that regulations, particularly anything that’s got a tie to safety, tends to be a one-way door. Once it’s put in place, it’s very, very difficult to muster the political will to reverse it. That’s a problem we have to solve. If we can crack that one, then we can start rolling back a lot of this stuff that everybody knows does nothing. You think we should return to the pre-9/11 regime? My friends can meet me at the gate. They don’t need a boarding pass. There’s no scanner.…

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