For what reasons could you be requested to go through the full body scanners? Is it random selection? Is it because you set of an alarm on the metal detector? Is it something else?
Screening by a full-body scanner is optional for all passengers, according to the TSA. Those who opt out may request alternative screening at the checkpoint, to include a pat-down, said Greg Soule, an agency spokesman. Although he declined to offer details on the agencys screening techniques, he added that checkpoint requirements for passengers departing from the United States havent changed since the underwear bomber incident last December. In other words, the TSA claims it isnt pushing travelers into the scanners and punishing those who decline a scan.
In other words, the TSA won't tell us who is chosen for AIT full body scanning.
Doesn't everyone go through the body scanners unless someone says he wants to "opt out" in which case he gets a pat down?
Nope, not even close. Maybe a third of all passengers, if that many. As mentioned already, airports don't have the ability to screen every single passenger this way...way too costly.Doesn't everyone go through the body scanners unless someone says he wants to "opt out" in which case he gets a pat down?
does Kansas City use these?? How 'bout Orlando?? I simply feel it is a HUGE invasion of privacy.....Dont want to use an airport that uses full body scanners.
Every airport is going to be using them, I don't think you can avoid it.
I went through one in Richmond in August and wasn't crazy about it but I think this whole thing is being overblown. As far as radiation, I heard on GMA this morning it's about 1/30 of a chest x-ray.
....great.....That really sucks. You realize they can see what you look like naked??!! That is VERY upsetting to me. I purposely wear clothes that mask my fat. It is a HUGE invasion of my privacy.
At BWI this past trip Mrs U and I went thru the scanners--seemed quite random to us.
And we were in and out very fast--stand on the foot markers, raise your hands--and it's done.
Doesn't everyone go through the body scanners unless someone says he wants to "opt out" in which case he gets a pat down?
You can elect to have an enhanced pat-down instead of going through the AIT.
At BWI this past trip Mrs U and I went thru the scanners--seemed quite random to us.
And we were in and out very fast--stand on the foot markers, raise your hands--and it's done.
As another poster said, there aren't enough scanners to handle all the traffic. Also TSA claims (as of today) that the WBI aren't primary screening tools. To which I reply - yet.
Yes, a patdown that they won't describe to you ahead of time but which reportedly involves grasping the genital region and the chest (of women).