Originally Posted by
HawaiiTrvlr
I will go and check out DEN on Sunday. I will post my observations and compare them to my observations on NOOD. I suspect that the TSA will go back to their normal selves sometime after Monday. As luck would have it, I will be flying Tuesday so will be going through 1 of the 3 checkpoints. I will compare that experience with Wed and Sunday's observations.
So, here it is Sunday. The locall station says that 172,000 will be flying from/thru DEN. Compared to Wednesday, today was just as easy to fly from DEN. I observed for approx 40 mins of both checkpoints in the main hall (south and Colorado Flag checkpoints). Here are a couple of those observations:
- 5 TDCs checking IDs at both checkpoints
- 9 lanes open for screening at the Southside point
- 8 lanes open for screening at the Colorado Flag point
- 1 of 4 NOS machines being used (Southside point)
- each checkpoint staffed with 45-50 TSA
- only watched 3 patdowns (all occured on the southside point); 2 older gentlemen and 1 eldery women. The women being patted down had the screener go inside the waistband but minimally
- One lady had water left in her water bottle; screener took the bottle and dumped the contents out and handed it back
- As compared to Wednesday, there were fewer screeners helping passengers with their bin contents
- Those that went through the NoS were given an additional patdown of pockets after coming out of the machine (assuming to resolve any anomolies)
- Teenage girl carried through what looked to be jam; screener swabbed it but handed it back; no additional patdown given.
I am still flying out on Tuesday so will get to provide some additional observations. With all that said, I had an interesting interactions with Denver finest. I will report that under the thread titled "That's Up to the FBI" coming soon.