TSA’s new Analogic machines at OAK are insanely slow
Mar 27, 2023, 8:51 am
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TSA’s new Analogic machines at OAK are insanely slow
I spent 40 minutes today clearing PreCheck at OAK. The new screening machines are 3 to 4 times slower, causing a proportionate increase in screening times. It wasn’t terrible when the 5 minute delay tripled, but spring break is a disaster.
I wonder if anything can be done about this downgrade of our travel experience.
Edit: The new machines are at Terminal 2 in OAK. Next time I will try my luck at Terminal 1.
I wonder if anything can be done about this downgrade of our travel experience.
Edit: The new machines are at Terminal 2 in OAK. Next time I will try my luck at Terminal 1.
Last edited by nsx; Mar 27, 2023 at 9:02 am
Mar 27, 2023, 9:09 am
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So this is an outright lie? Yikes.
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Mar 27, 2023, 9:26 am
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I'm not sure it's the machines that are slower...it's the new bins/conveyors that seem to muck up the works. I fly through OAK T2 every week and it's definitely a downgraded experience since they added the new infrastructure a few weeks ago. I would go through T1, but no Clear lanes there.
Mar 27, 2023, 9:41 am
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Operator error? I've seen those machines at (... dammit, I fly too much, everything is starting to run together) FLL(?) and PDX(??) and the thruput isn't noticeably less.
Mar 27, 2023, 11:07 am
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I was hoping it was an operator learning curve, but it's been several weeks now. This morning I was seeing bags pause at the machine exit for 30 seconds or more. I'm sure the machine can go faster but the operators at OAK don't seem to be capable of more speed. I hadn't waited more than a few minutes at OAK security in well over a year until the new machines arrived.
Mar 27, 2023, 2:29 pm
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It's not that the machines are slower, the TSA agent is slower now that they can look around and rotate the image, etc. With the old machine, they had the options of looking at various layers via various xray wavelengths. With the Analogic machines, they can now have a 3D 360 view in any direction.
Mar 27, 2023, 2:36 pm
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So does this mean fewer "pull-asides" then? My laptop bag is full and dense and will sometimes get the "we need to re-run it" or "manual inspection" treatment; it only happens every ~10 runs or so, but when it does it really slows me down.
Mar 27, 2023, 2:48 pm
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Supposedly it's to cut down on secondary checks where they can't see what a dense object is, but in my experience, they take extra time to look, and if they still can't see what it is, they'll still pull it. So, maybe?
Mar 27, 2023, 3:45 pm
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Mine was pulled this morning, which happened less than 20% of the time with the old machines.
Mar 27, 2023, 3:46 pm
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It's not that the machines are slower, the TSA agent is slower now that they can look around and rotate the image, etc. With the old machine, they had the options of looking at various layers via various xray wavelengths. With the Analogic machines, they can now have a 3D 360 view in any direction.
Mar 27, 2023, 4:12 pm
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Mar 27, 2023, 7:07 pm
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