Practical Travel Safety Issues - DEN early morning SODD likelihood?

What likelihood is there for SDOO success at DEN for a very early morning (4:30 am) trip through TSA security checkpoint? I have not gone through TSA that early at DEN before.

Ugh...I can't type in the early mornings...sorry for typo in title.

Probably slim as I doubt they will not have the WTMD line open. But if it is open - SDOO at DEN are fairly easy.

Not happening. DEN doesn't open the A-bridge checkpoint until 5:30 AM or so (and I rarely see WTMDs operating there at all). The Colorado Flag checkpoint typically opens around 5:00 AM, but doesn't run its WTMD-only lanes until 7:00 AM usually. The main checkpoint typically opens the WTMD-only lane on the far left, linked to the priority line, by 6:30 AM or so, but at low-traffic times like 4:30 AM, no chance of SDOO whatsoever.

Thanks to both of you for the quick feedback.

Based on your answers, I've bit the bullet (oops, can I say that here with regard to a TSA-related question?) and paid the extra costs to switch the flight itinerary to a later departure time.

My airline will be happy that I put principle above finances.

Flew out of DEN this morning, for the first time since March (been in MCI where we don't have a NoS ^ :))

Around 8:10am, I observed that the checkpoint closest to the UA counter had added two more NoS, which leaves only the far left and far right lanes with only WTMD. Of course, all of the WTMD were closed, the the sheeple were being directed into the WTMD. The moat dragon was also asking to see BPs as a person went into the MMW. Guess they don't believe in the jobs of the TDCs :rolleyes:

The East side (closest to F9) also had added two/three more MMWs, and all WTMDs were closed.

At the A bridge checkpoint, only one lane was open, and the MMW was primary.

So much for the NoS not being primary...

yeah, the UA checkpoint is far left lane is the only reliable one being wmtd only. thought is was odd they were checking boarding passes as you went through the wmtd..really slowed things down..somewhat ridiculous..seems like every airport makes up their own rules...we need precheck in DEN!

The moat dragon was also asking to see BPs as a person went into the MMW. Guess they don't believe in the jobs of the TDCs :rolleyes:

At the A bridge checkpoint, only one lane was open, and the MMW was primary.

So much for the NoS not being primary...

yeah, the UA checkpoint is far left lane is the only reliable one being wmtd only. thought is was odd they were checking boarding passes as you went through the wmtd..really slowed things down..somewhat ridiculous..seems like every airport makes up their own rules...we need precheck in DEN!

The two-striper who groped me had no idea when Pre-Check would be added. Hopefully by the end of the summer, if not sooner. They've already got four lanes without NoS (2 East, 2 West), so I'm not 100% sure what takes so long for them to get the program setup at a new airport.

I went through DEN this morning, noted that NOSs now in every lane in northern checkpoint, and in all lanes except the leftmost one ("expert traveler" lane) in southern checkpoint (the one with the large US flag in the windows to the outside, terror-filled world -- what an ironic picture this was, the emblem of the land of the free and home of the brave hanging over the Gestapo headquarters of the DEN airport).

The extra NOSs are new since I last flew through DEN, it seems. Pretty soon, it will be impossible to avoid them there, and another airport goes off the list of ones through which I might fly my family.

They've already got four lanes without NoS (2 East, 2 West), so I'm not 100% sure what takes so long for them to get the program setup at a new airport.

I wouldn't expect to see DEN as a Pre-Check airport until UA starts participating in the program.