Originally Posted by clark_addison

In all my flights over the last several years, I've only had extra screening when flying one-way, buying a ticket a day before travel, or getting the "XXXXXX" randomly on the boarding pass.

Today while flying out of PHL, I checked in several hours early on AA and went into the Admiral's Club. The lounge was outside security. When I went through the metal detector to entire the gate area, I was asked by TSA to submit to a full body pat-down? I couldn't see anything on my boarding pass that would indicate that I was pre-selected for extra screening, so I was just wondering if this was one of these random layers of screening or something that I had done. I had no metal objects, but the TSA guy at the front of the x-ray machine announced to the people doing the screening that I had a "breathing machine" with me.

I had taken a cpap machine out of it's case and placed it alone in a bin per normal. It usually gets the swab test. Again, usually. You know, because only sometimes we should check for things that we isolate for extra screening.