Originally Posted by
Global_Hi_Flyer
I have noticed a trend of TSA-screeners deliberately treating "priority" AND "experienced" travelers badly - as in deliberate delays. At IAD, the experienced traveler line is the wheelchair line... and it seems to be the TSA trainee line (this morning they were training a contractor to do ID checks). At other airports - like T-4 at LAX - the strip-search machines are in the elite lanes. South side of DEN main checkpoint, same.
This describes the BWI experience as well. At the C C/P, the priority line is where the hand ETD station is located - in my observations, 3 priority line members are chosen for every 1 standard line member. It also feeds into the same station that is used by non-CrewPass flight members, airside employees, wheelchair passengers, SSSS passengers and TSO bypass (all of the aforementioned categories exercising front-of-line @ Xray/WTMD).