Originally Posted by
luitje
My take on that: let those who mind new scanners keep going through the regular "take you belts-shoes-coat-wristwatch-off" thing with a pat down after the detector); but please-please let me do this nude-o-scope (or whatever you chosse to call it) and avoid this hassle. I've been through these machines in Moscow and it makes the whole security thing a breeze.
I am more than happy to leave those who find these new scanners humiliating to the airport queues, as long as they leave me my liberty to shortcut security lines by going through this immoral and uncivilised process.
Who is to say you won't have "take you belts-shoes-coat-wristwatch-off" before or after being subjected to the strip search machine?
Who is to say the strip-search machine and follow-ups to flags raised by the strip-search machine searches won't slow the lines down compared to the current practice of the metal detector process with or without a pat-down?
Sooner or later, this will be like things went with Delta Airlines' "best of both" combination of the Delta SkyMiles with Northwest WorldPerks "loyalty" programs: the worst of both for the most.