Originally Posted by
tehiota
I thought about that; however, there are plenty of people that legitimately cannot pass through WBI without requiring a pat down. So in your line of 20+ protesters that theTSA is punishing by taking their time, now have to queue up anyone in a wheelchair or with a metal (ex: hip) implant.
How is that going to look when grandma/pa misses her flight home to thanksgiving because the TSA was too slow ? She submitted to WBI after all. You sure can't put her ahead of the line of the queue either without an uproar.
As I said, separate lines. One for those who are unable to go thru the scanner due to disability, like Grandma, and those who go thru but alarm. A different line for those who just choose to opt out. And as long as anyone is waiting in the first line, I process them ahead of anyone in the second one.
Fair? No. Uproar? Maybe, who cares.
But it meets the TSA's dual goals of avoiding bad publicity and discouraging opt-outs.