Originally Posted by
naxos
Family of 5- parents with 3 adult children flying from DCA-LGA on Thanksgiving Day and retruning (USAIR) on Friday from JFK-DCA. At DCA early Thursday morning fastest security line ever- saw no one being screened other than going thru the usual metal machines.
On Friday however- same family wearing pretty much the same clothing at JFK (American) 3/5 were stopped after the nudeoscope. My daughter was taken to a small room with 2 women and after a thorough grope was asked what she had in her pants--" Just the usual parts" she replied. One of the agents asked the other if they should take down her nformation and went to get a piece of scrap paper and copied info from her boarding pass.
Son declined the small room and was "checked" full pat down style in view of all and hubby had a cursory pat down.
Why the different experiences? Is this the return of the flying to DCA post 9/11 "special treatment?
Your son was right to refuse the "small room." Your daughter should have also. These types of pat downs need to be done in public for all other passengers to see - especially after transiting the NOS.
It would seem that most of these post-NOS pat downs are being done because of false positives and, if so, it shows that these machines are not working properly, as has been found to be the case at several airports in Europe.